11.1

Multiple Choice

Final Exam Review:

In order of smallest to largest, an ecologist studies life at these scales:

• biosphere, ecosystem, population, individual, community

• individual, community, population, ecosystem, biosphere

• ecosystem, community, population, individual, biosphere

• individual, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to manage natural resources?

• To ensure their availability

• To make nonrenewable resources renewable

• To decrease biodiversity

• To provide food for wildlife

Multiple Choice

Soil, fresh water, wild animals, and timber are examples of

• renewable resources.

• inexhaustible resources.

• nonrenewable resources.

• forest resources.

Multiple Choice

A renewable resource is harvested sustainably if

• the amount of replacement is less than the amount harvested.

• the amount of replacement is equal to the amount harvested

• soil erosion is prevented.

• replacing trees costs less than harvesting trees.

Multiple Choice

Which approach to resource management aims to harvest resources in ways that minimize impact on the ecosystem and processes that provide the resource?

• maximum sustainable yield

• ecosystem-based management

• adaptive management

• watershed management

Multiple Choice

Maximum sustainable yield, ecosystem-based management, and adaptive management are three approaches to

• poaching.

• overharvesting.

• resource management.

• none of the above