WIS EXERCISE 1 – Flashcards
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People in Kentucky developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease like symptoms after eating
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squirrel brains
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Most non-phylogenetic wildlife classification schemes are based on
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distribution and abundace
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Sea horses commonly live over
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beds of grass
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Wide scale poisioning of prairie dogs was undertaken between 1920 and 1970 by the agency now known a
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USDA wildlife service
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Nutria were originally introduced to
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establish a fur industry.
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In 1981, a population of Black-footed Ferrets was found near Meeteese in
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Wyoming
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A hunter from Louisiana, who shot a radio-collared lynx in Colorado, was fined
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greater than 18000
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"Egging", means the removal of eggs from snow goose nests will likely be ineffective in managing snow geese because
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nests are far from any people
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A female snow goose can lose ___ of her body mass producing a single clutch.
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40%
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is an introduced species in North America that belongs to the phylum Mollusca.
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zebra mussel
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Currently the market for US caught cannonball jellyfish exists especially in
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Korea
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seahorses are actually
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bony fish
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The muskrat is a once commercially important native North American ___ that weighs about 2 lb
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furbearer
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researches believe that the declines seen in british farmland birds are due to
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farming practices
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is one of the three most represented phyla of invertebrates listed by FCREPA
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cnidaria
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As noted in lecture, there are ___ main foraging types (not species!) of gull
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two
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The frog most sought after in Big Cypress National Preserve was the___ frog
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pig
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in one study of british farmland bird reseraches found that about ___% of all european birds are now a conservation concern
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20
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In Louisiana, authorities recently hoped to persuade the public to
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eat nutria meat
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Sponges once were, but no longer are, commercially harvested out of
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key west
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In deuterostomes the---froms from the blastopore.
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anus
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__species of kangaroo are only harvested on Flinders Island and Tasmania
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two
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although japan supported the one time sale of ivory, the sale was opposed by
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china
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Fishers (Martes pennati) have recently been re-introduced to the state of
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tennessee
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The fisher re-introductions were funded in part by
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duracell
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The largest population of re-introduced black-footed ferrets (164 individuals) is in
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south dakota
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Wisconsin deer may have been infected with CWD by eating
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protein pellets
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Cannonball jellyfish are a good species for commercial harvest because they
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have high reproductive rates
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White line disease is found in certain --- in Florida.
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corals
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The individuals used in re-introductions of the black-footed ferret came from
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captive breeding
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BTO researchers found that the ___ had increased to higher numbers than ever reported throughout history
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grey heron
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Coral reefs are formed by species in the phylum
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cnidaria
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Phostoxin reacts with ___in the atmosphere to become activated.
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water
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Plants are not listed by CITES.
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false
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According to the Miami Herald in 1996 people were killing $___ worth of frogs per night.
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700
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Lobsters and shrimp are species in the phylum
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anthropoda
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A pseudocoelom is characteristic of the
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nematodes
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Today sponges are commercially harvested in Florida only out of
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tarpon springs
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the california wildlife protection act banned hunting of
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mountain lions
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mountain lions have never been known to kill humans
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false
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Scallops are members of the phylum
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mollusca
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Sea Horses are especially popular in markets in traditional medicine in
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china
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By 1984 the Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly was reduced to a total of
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70 individuals
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is an example of a wildlife classification scheme based on an international agreement
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CITES
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The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly survived because a few individuals wer
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none of these (not protected by the NPS, naturally large, or had mated with an introduced species)
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the predator defense institue attacked the ___ state wildlife agency over its methods for studying mountain lion population size
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oregon
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The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly was nearly wiped out in 1992 because of
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hurrican andrew
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Fishers are members of the ___ family
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weasel
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are extremely dangerous species found in the region of tropical Australia.
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box jellyfish
