Wildlife Management Vocabulary

What is the science of managing wildlife populations and their habitats to achieve a goal called?

• Extent of Occurrence

• Wildlife Management

• Carrying Capacity

• Trapping

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What term describes the geographic boundaries in which a species could occur and outside of which species will not be able to survive?

• Area of Occupancy

• Population

• Extent of Occurrence

• Habitat

What is the maximum population size of a species that a habitat can support called?

• Sustainable Yield

• Carrying Capacity

• Bag Limits

• Over-Abundant Species

What is the term for the act of capturing and transporting wildlife from one location to another?

• Trapping

• Translocating

• Cover

• Habitat

What is the maximum number of individual fish or game animals allowed to be caught or killed by one person within a given period called?

• Bag Limits

• Sustainable Yield

• Carrying Capacity

• Periods of Vulnerability

What is the definition of "Home Range" in wildlife management?

• Area covered by an individual's routine movements and activities

• Methods aimed to benefit wildlife by maintaining habitats

• Act of maintaining natural resources for future generations

• Disruption in a sere changing a plant community

What are "Habitat Management Techniques" designed to do?

• Disrupt a plant community to an earlier sere

• Benefit wildlife by maintaining or improving habitats

• Gradually change from one sere to another

• Preserve natural resources for future generations

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What does "Conservation" involve in the context of wildlife management?

• Gradual change from one sere to another

• Disruption in a sere changing a plant community

• Maintaining and using natural resources for future generations

• Area covered by an individual's routine movements

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What is "Succession" in an ecosystem?

• Disruption in a sere changing a plant community

• Gradual change from one sere to another towards a climax community

• Area covered by an individual's routine movements

• Methods aimed to benefit wildlife by maintaining habitats

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What does "Sere" refer to in an ecosystem?

• Stage of plant growth adapting from uncolonized to climax community

• Disruption in a sere changing a plant community

• Maintaining and using natural resources for future generations

• Area covered by an individual's routine movements