Hunter Safety Chapter 9 Study Guide

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 the 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 _______________________ of a wildlife area is the number of animals the habitat can support.

• Environment

• Carrying Capacity

• Population

• Conservation

What are four factors that can limit wildlife population?

• Hunting, starvation, erosion, pollution

• Disease, hunting, deforestation, pollution

• Starvation, deforestation, predators, hunting

• Disease, starvation, predators, pollution

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 supplying wildlife managers with needed information from the field

• hunting contributes to threatened or endangered wildlife

• both A & 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 & 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