Today's Hunter Chapter 9

Wildlife conservation ensures that _____.

• hunting seasons established by Kublai Khan will continue.

• no animals are ever harvested

• natural resources can be drawn on despite unwise use.

• renewable resources can replenish themselves indefinitely

Wildlife preservation _____.

• allows for consumptive use of natural resources

• is a Biblical rule for saving natural resources

• saves natural resources but with no consumptive use of them

• allows hunting of endangered species

A habitat for wildlife must include _____.

• space, arrangement, food, cover, and water

• brush and rocks, predators, water, and space

• space, vegetation, food, and resting and breeding places

• cover, predators, large area, arrangement, and food

The "carrying capacity" of a wildlife area is the _____.

Disease, Pollution, Accidents are factors that limit the potential production of wildlife. Name four more factors.

Hunting is an effective wildlife conservation tool because _____.

• funding from hunting licenses helps many game and non-game species recover from dwindling populations

• hunters play an important role by supply wildlife managers with needed information from the field

• hunting contributes to threatened or endangered wildlife

• both a and b

By continuously monitoring the birth rate and death rate of various species and the condition of their habitat, wildlife managers _____.

• know how to set hunting regulations and can determine if other management practices are needed to conserve wildlife species

• know when to ignore hunting regulations they set earlier

• can obtain data to eliminate wildlife species

• both b and c

Trapping and relocating animals is an example of the _____ wildlife management practice.

• hunting

• artificial stocking

• setting bag limits and legal methods for taking wildlife

• habitat improvement

Some species are protected by law from being hunted because _____.

• they are predators for a pest species

• they are migrating

• their habitat is gone

• their numbers are small

It is critical that hunters are able to identify wildlife correctly so that they don't mistakenly _____.

• harvest illegal game animals or non-game animals

• confuse horns with antlers

• confuse cloven hooves with cud chewers

• confuse meat-eating animals with those that eat meat as well as plants