ENWC McCarthy Midterm Questions and Answers Rated A+

ENWC McCarthy Midterm Questions and Answers Rated A+ ______ is a _______ that is created when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide enter the atmosphere and interact with clouds. Acid rain; secondary air pollutant "Conservation" includes the concept of using our natural resources, e.g. via timber harvest, fishing, and hunting, but doing so in a manner that is sustainable True "Father of Wildlife Management" Aldo Leopold A female cougar (also known as a mountain lion, catamount, or puma), reaches reproductive age at ~2 years old and produces a litter every two to three years. Female cougars are very protective of their cubs, which stay with their mother for up to 2 1/2 years. This reproductive system is best described as: K strategist A niche is considered an animals habitat, i.e., the physical and biological resources required by an organism for its survival and reproduction False Adaptation to limits psychological storing or using body fat stores Adaptations to limits long term hibernation, estivation, migration Adaptations to limits short term fasting, reduces activity (torpor), rummaging additive mortality the affect of one kind of mortality is independent of other sources of mortality Age Distribution The proportion of individuals of different ages within a population. You can use an age distribution to estimat survival by calculating the difference in proportion of individuals in succeeding age classes All wildlife in the United States has adequate regulation of their harvest (hunting) to prevent overexploitation. False Although greenhouse gasses are important for maintaining our earths climate, as we increase the amount of them in our atmosphere we are causing more long-wave radiation to be captured/reflected back to the earth, thus causing warming. Similar to how a greenhouse works for plants. True An avid hunter and outdoorsman who's presidency in part led to the "Golden Age in Conservation" Teddy Roosevelt An early effort to develop a new whooping crane migratory population failed, because when whooping crane chicks imprinted upon sandhill crane mothers they not only learned to migrate and eat like sandhill cranes, but also tried to court/mate with sandhill cranes True Approximately 40% of the nation's migratory waterfowl use the Mississippi Flyway during their migration, more than any other flyway in the US. True Based on the definitions given in class: the term "Wildlife" can include ALL living things, whether domesticated or non-domesticated FALSE Basic components for habitat food, shelter, water, space Because the burrowing owl is a species of special concern