NEW
Font size
WorksheetsHunter Safety: Chapter 3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the main goal of wildlife conservation?
Destroying natural resources
Wasting natural resources
Preserving natural resources without consumptive use
Selling natural resources for profit
What is the North American Model of Fish and Wildlife Conservation based on?
Commercial use of wildlife
Sound scientific knowledge and principles
Land ownership
Wealth and social standing
What is the carrying capacity of a habitat?
The number of animals the habitat can support during the breeding season
The number of animals the habitat can support during the summer
The number of animals the habitat can support during the winter
The number of animals the habitat can support all year long
What is the main purpose of predator control in wildlife management?
To eliminate all predators from the habitat
To reduce predators to enable stable populations of threatened species
To increase the number of predators in the habitat
To protect predators from other wildlife
What is the main characteristic of mammals?
Herbivorous
Feathered
Warm-blooded with hair
Cold-blooded
What is the main reason some species are protected from hunting?
Because they are easy to hunt
Because they are not important for the ecosystem
Because their numbers are small and they produce no surplus to harvest
Because they are abundant and produce a surplus
What is the main purpose of controlled burning in habitat improvement?
To destroy the habitat
To increase the production of certain wildlife species
To promote new growth and slow down the process of succession
To reduce the number of wildlife in the habitat
What is the main role of wildlife managers in maintaining wildlife populations?
To increase the number of animals in the habitat
To keep the number of animals in balance with their habitat
To eliminate all animals from the habitat
To ignore historical trends and current habitat conditions
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
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
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
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
