Which of the following is a strategy associated with conservation biology?
Designating a nature reserve to protect an endangered wildcat species.
Re-establishing a native species of pine tree in an area used prev
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Which of the following is a strategy associated with conservation biology?
Designating a nature reserve to protect an endangered wildcat species.
Re-establishing a native species of pine tree in an area used previously by loggers.
Exploring the interdependence of species within ecosystems on a global scale.
Monitoring and evaluating groundwater quality in a formerly contaminated site.
CONCEPT
Conservation Biology & Restoration Ecology
2
Which of the following is a non-renewable resource?
Wind
Wood
Biomass
Petroleum
CONCEPT
Natural Resources
3
Which statement is NOT true about energy and trophic levels within a food web?
Most of the energy between trophic levels is lost in the form of metabolic heat.
Secondary production introduces only 1% of new energy to the food chain.
The rate at which energy accumulates in plants depends on temperature, sun and water.
About 90% of the energy available at one trophic level does not transfer to the next.
CONCEPT
Food Chains and Food Webs
4
Which of the following is NOT an example of overexploitation?
Little more than one thousand bison existed in North America by the 1880s.
Fur processing in Canada is carefully regulated to protect both the animals and the
environment.
90 species of Asian turtles are collected in Singapore and Cambodia for Chinese
restaurants.
Slow-growing medicinal plants are harvested before they have a chance to reproduce.
CONCEPT
Overexploitation
5
Population ecologists study which of the following characteristics?
Temperature regulation, nutrition and metabolism of organisms.
Number, density, age, and sex of organisms.
Atmosphere, rocks, water and living organisms.
Composition, distribution and interaction of species in a given area.
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