Biology Full Semester Part 4

T/F About half of all oceanic islands were formed as a result of continental drift. - False T/F According to Moulton there are fewer examples of introductions to LDCs than MDCs. True T/F According to Moulton, Global Warming will be greatest in sub-arctic boreal forests of Siberia and North America. - True T/F According to the "Jungles" episode, ants in the rainforest may be infested with spores from Cordyceps a parasitic fungus. - True T/F According to the "Jungles" episode, figs are produced year round. - True T/F According to the "Jungles" episode, Gibbon calls may carry more than one mile. - True T/F According to the "Jungles" episode, most animal life in tropical rainforests is found in the canopy. - True T/F According to the "Jungles" episode, there are thought to be one million species of fungi in a rainforest. - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Caves," Cave Angel Fish feed on bacteria. - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Caves," Cave Salamanders must eat every dat to survive. - False T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Caves," Cave Swiftlets use their sense of touch to navigate the cave. - False T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Caves," each Cave glow-worm produces dozens of silken strands - true T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Caves," since there is no sunlight energy the system is run on energy from bat droppings - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Caves," the formation of the departing Wrinklenosed bats in deer cave is based on seniority of the bats, oldest choosing the favored positions. - False T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Caves,"Cave Swiftlets nest on bare rock ledges in a cave. - False T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Fresh Water," competition for mates among male Botos is stiff. - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Fresh Water," figs that drop into the waters of the Amazon are food for fish - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Fresh Water," Giant Salamanders have excellent low light eyesight. - False T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Fresh Water,"all the species of Cichlid fish in Lake Malawi evolved from ten ancestral species. - False T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Mountains," Demoiselle Cranes must fly over the Himalayas during their migration. - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Mountains," Geladas are fast runners but not good climbers. - false T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Mountains," Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys live at the highest elevations of any monkey. - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Mountains," the long tail of the snow leopard is an adaption for balance. - true T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Mountains,"Walia Ibex are especially on guard when Geladas are nearby. - false T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Ocean Deep," the Whale Shark is the oceans' largest fish. - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Ocean-Deep," Green Sea turtle eggs mostly hatch at night. - True T/F According to the film "Planet Earth-Ocean-Deep," the sea stars are close relatives of Nautilus. - False T/F As rising temperature disrupt natural systems most species will be able to migrate or change their behavior. - True T/F Bolger and his team did not explicitly test the degree of isolation of a fragment age was important. - True T/F Bolger and his team did not explicitly test the idea that fragment age was important. True T/F Captive populations can act as a reservoir for diseases that can spread to wild populations. - True T/F Communal nesting birds are especially vulnerable to harvest. - True T/F Driving a car generates more greenhouse gas than almost anything you do. - True T/F Flying foxes are threatened with extinction largely because they are considered a delicacy. - True T/F Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide regulate our climate by trapping heat and holding it like a warm air blanket around earth. - True T/F Human hunting increases the population of predators. - False T/F Hunting can lower the age of first reproduction in a hunted species. - True T/F If the bird fauna in a series of fragments is nested then the mammals and flowering plants would also have to be nested. - False T/F In Indochina, many large animals have been almost eliminated by hunting. - True T/F In the Piceance Basin, some bird species of the Pinyon-Juniper Woodland would not cross even the smallest cleared areas. - True T/F In this day and age, in tropical forests wildlife is never an essential food source for humans. - False T/F In tropical forest areas, all indications are that wildlife farming for meat is economically viable compared with hunting or farming domestic species. - False T/F It is legal to hunt alligators in Florida. - True T/F It is usually more cost effective to farm wildlife than to hunt it. - False T/F Lemurs reach their greatest species diversity in Madagascar. - True T/F Leopold's classic treatise on game management argues for the use of natural resources without destroying the possibility of future generations using them. - True T/F Long term studies show that alligator populations remain stable even when as many as 50% of nests are collected for ranching. - True T/F Many species of cloud forest frogs have declined or gone extinct in Cost Rica. - True T/F Methods for conserving biodiversity include reducing carbon emissions. - True T/F Milk of the Giant Panda is rich in fat, which enables the cub to grown more rapidly than any other bear species. - True T/F Mountain Lions and Florida Panthers are members of the same species. - True T/F Neanderthals and modern humans did not coexist. - False T/F Neanderthals were genetically distinct from modern humans. - True T/F Neotropical migrants are all passerine birds. - False T/F Odd-toed Ungulates typically have less efficient digestive systems than the Even-toed Ungulates. - True T/F People in the world's tropical forests have little or no tradition of raising domestic livestock. - True T/F Sloths and anteaters are toothless. - False T/F Some reptiles exhibit temperature sex determination. - True T/F Some Venezuelan ranch owners are more inclined to protect wetlands because they support capybara. - True T/F Spring in Alaska now arrives 2 weeks earlier than in 1950. - True T/F Subsistence hunting occurs when forest people sell the animals they kill to other people living in the same village. - False T/F Sustainable hunting occurs when people hunt for the sole purpose of providing for themselves and their family. - False T/F The Aye Aye is a secretive species of the Strepsirrhini native to the Philippines. - False T/F The bushmeat trade in primates is causing concern because new strains of an HIV like virus are infecting people who eat duikers. - False T/F The climate is changing uniformly across the globe. - False T/F The Dingo of Australia is actually a marsupial. - False T/F The effects of global warming will be felt most severely in developed countries. - False T/F The Eurasian Collared Dove came to the United States when it was intentionally introduced to Central Park in New York City. - False T/F The Gibbons are in the same family as the humans. False - False T/F The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement among industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The US agreed to join other nations in this effort. - False T/F The Large Flying Fox is indigenous to Africa. - False T/F The majority of introduced bird species are invasive and spread great distances from their point of introduction. - False T/F The tarsiers today are limited in distribution to the New World topics. False - False T/F The Waterbuck is actually not found in Africa, but rather in Southeast Asia. - False T/F There are no Bears in Africa. - False T/F There are some scattered grassland habitats in the Oriental Zoogeographic Region. - True T/F Wading birds in Everglades National Park have declined due to bureaucratic forces inside the Park. - False T/F Water Birds of several species have increased in New York harbor. - True T/F Wildlife farming complicates law enforcement. - True taiga occurs in south america as well as canada and russia - false tawny frogmouth is a common bird in - australia temp of determines the sex of alligator hatchlings - nest cavity temperate forests do not have a very high diversity of species - lizard temperate species may tend to be more ecologically specialized than their tropical counterparts - false Temperate species may tend to be more ecologically specialized than their tropical counterparts. - false temperature dependent sex determination was discovered in a study of - red eared turtles Temperature-dependent sex determination was discovered in a study of ______. - red-eared turtles Terborgh claims that ______ are particularly harmful to tropical birds. - roads terborgh claims that are particularly harmful to tropical birds - roads Terns feed by _____. - diving from the air for fish terns feed by - diving from the air for fish Terrestrial Caecilians are mostly adapted for ______. - burrowing terrestrial caecilians are mostly adapted for - burrowing tetrahymena is a genus in the kingdom often used in toxicology studies - protista Tetrahymera is a genus in the Kingdom ____, often used in toxicology studies. - Protista The __ is the period of the first vascular plants. - Silurian The ___ era is broken down into Epochs. - Cenozoic The ___ is the period of the first vascular plants. - silurian The ____ Anole is a common species introduced to Florida. - Cuban The ____ are a species of deer in which both males and females have antlers. - caribou The ____ are an example of a diving duck. - scaup The ____ are board winged soaring species - buteos The ____ are lizards with specially adapted toe pads for clinging to vertical surfaces. - geckos The ____ are mostly pelagic species in the shorebird group that feed by diving for fish. alcids The ____ are very fast predators that feed by running down their prey. - whiptails The ____ era is broken down in Epochs. - Cenozoic The ____ gecko is a common introduced lizard in Gainesville, Florida. - mediterranean The ____ is an example of a perching duck that is native to South America. - muscovy The ____ is considered a sea duck although it lives mostly inland. - common goldeneye The ____ is highly specialized for a diet of apple snails. - Everglades kite The ____ is one species of bird with a keen sense of smell. - turkey vulture The ____ is the most valuable part of a capybara carcass. - skin The ____ Python has been introduced to the everglades and apparently is becoming established there. - burmese The ____ was once called the Pigeon Hawk. - Merlin The ____ was used as an example of a habitat-specilized species. - Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow The _____ ______ Act helped restore populations of water birds in New York harbor. - Clean Water The _____ are long-tailed, and short-winged acrobatic fliers that mostly feed on birds. Accipiters The _____ are passerine birds that forage by impaling small animals on thorns. - Shrikes The _____ are passerine species that are similar to swifts - swallows The _____ are shorebirds that feed by spinning around in the water to stir up food items. phalaropes The _____ are sluggish insect gleaning foragers. - Vireos The _____ family is the largest family that is found just in the New World. - tyrannidae The _____ is a scavenger that may occasionally kill and eat mammals. - komodo dragon The _____ is an example of an herbivorous lizard. - green iguana The _____ is the largest species of sea turtle. - Leatherback The _____ plover nests far inland on grasslands. - mountain The _____ tree apparently produces paclitaxel. - Pacific Yew The _____ was essentially a flightless pigeon in the Mascarene Islands. - Dodo The ______ has claws on its wings to help it climb through vegetation. - Hoatzin The ______ is a chickadee like species indigenous to the southwest and mexico, that belongs to a distinct family. - verdin The ______ is a forest dwelling close relative of the Giraffe. - Okapi The ______ were African ratites introduced to Australia. - ostriches The _______ is a desert dwelling antelope in Africa. - Addax The _______ may be the oldest primate group. - Tarsiers The ________ _______ was introduced from Eurasia to the Great Lakes where it has been implicated in the formation of a ODead Zone' in Lake Erie. - Quagga Mussel The ________ uses its specialized third digit to tap on wood to detect insects. - Aye Aye The _________ are insectivorous mammals limited to Madagascar. - Tenrecs The ___________ are the only egg-laying mammals. - monotremes The ___________ is the sole member of its family. - Pronghorn The ______________ on Guam has been implicated as the major agent for extinctions in forest birds. - brown tree snake The ________________ is a small (3 inches in length) introduced species that eats the same foods as several native North American crabs. - Asian Shore Crab The _________________ is an example of a mammal introduced to control rats in cane fields on Caribbean Islands and in Hawaii. - Small Indian Mongoose The __________________ was the last species of bird described in the US. - Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow The 2006 Stern Report estimates that it will cost __ of global GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to stabilize the effects of Global Warming. - 1% The American Crocodile is still found on various islands in the caribbean. - true The Anhinga or snake bird is actually in the same order as the _____. - pelicans the anhinga or snake bird is actually in the same order as the - pelicans The archenteron forms from the _____. - blastocoel the archenteron forms from the - blastocoel The Australian tropics are home to ____ species of monkeys. - 0/zero The bobolink is related to the _______. - blackbirds The bony fish evolved in the _____ period of the Paleozoic. - Ordovician The chief predators of small woodland birds in the Piceance Basin are ______. - hawks The classification scheme used by Wilson and Reeder for marsupials, partly emphasizes structure of the __________. - dentition The classification scheme used by Wilson and Reeder for marsupials, partly emphasizes structure of the ______. - foot The Concho River Water Snake is listed as ___________. - threatened The conversion of amino acids back to ____ is called ammonification. - NH3 The conversion of ammonium ions to nitrates is called _____. - nitrification The conversion of N2 to NH3 is exergonic - false The crested pigeon is native to - australia The cue for pied flycatchers to begin their migration from Africa to northern Europe is not temperature but _________. - day length The desert iguana is indigenous to - the american southwest The development of young from unfertilized eggs is called ______. - parthenogenesis The Dodos and Solitaires were native only to the ______. - mascarenes The dorsal part of a turtle's shell is called the ____. - carapace The Dusky Seaside Sparrow originally occurred only in _________. - Florida The ecological niche of a species may be based on _____. - any of these The elephant bird was native to __________. - Madagascar The elephant bird was native to New Guinea. - false The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells. - mutualistic The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by _____. larger prokaryotic cells The Eurasian collared dove spread over Europe after it was introduced to _______. - Turkey The Eye-lash viper has a _____ between the eye and nostril. - heat detecting pit The fairy wrens are native to the __________ Zoogeographic Region. - Australasian The first dinosaurs appeared in the ____. - Triassic The first fungi evolved in the _____. - Ordovician The first hominids appeared at the end of the ___. - Tertiary The first vascular plants evolved in the _____. - Paleozoic The flyng foxes (Order Dermoptera) are indigenous to the _______ Zoogeographic Region. Oriental The fossil known as "Lucy" was discovered in ______. - Ethiopia The giant salamander is _____ in length. - 1.6 meters The gibbons belong to the ________ - Catarrhini The global warming controversy is largely a/an ________ debate. - political The grass cutter is a species of _______ indigenous to Africa. - rodent The hallux is a technical term for _____________. - the big toe The Haplorrhini are characterized by all species having ________. - dry noses The Hoatzin is a species native to ______. - South America the hoatzin is a species native to - south america The Hoopoe is a European and African species in the same group as the - kingfishers The Hui Manu was an Acclimatization society in _______. - Hawaii The idea that corridors could serve as landscape linkages came from _______. - Harris The introduced Nile Monitor in Florida may possibly become a threat to native ______. Burrowing Owls The kinglets are a family found only in the old world - false The largest salamander is native to ______. - Japan the largest salamander is native to - japan The leaf birds are found in the _________ Zoogeographic Region. - Oriental The Lemurs belong to the ___________. - Strepirrhini The less evolutionarily advanced salamanders are mostly ______. - aquatic The Lorises belong to the _____________. - Strepsirrhini The lower part of the atmosphere is called the ____. - Troposphere the main characteristic of deserts is low rainfall - true The main food of Limpkins is ______. - mollusks the main tree in old growth forests of the pacific northwest is not the giant sequoia - true The major gas associated with global warming is _____ - CO2 The majority of greenhouse gasses are produced by ________________. - burning fossil fuels The mexican parrot snake is a ____ type forager. - seize and swallow The modern oder of Squamata likely descended from the fossil reptile group ____. Archosauria The most recent fossils for Neanderthals show that they died out roughly ________ years ago. - 27,000 The most vehicle cause black bear deaths in Florida have occurred in the __________________ area. - Ocala National Forest The Nearctic Zoogeographic Region shares several groups of birds and mammals with the _________ Zoogeographic Region. - Palearctic The new holland honey-eater is native to - australia The new world monkey group apparently colonized the new world in the _______. - Tertiary The Nighthjars and Tawny Frogmouth are members of the group known as the ______. Goatsuckers The nile crocodile is the largest crocodile species in _____. - Africa The Northern Mockingbird is most closely related to the ________. - thrashers The Ocelot is a species that is indigenous to ________________. - Central America The oldest species of Ardapithecus dates back more than ___________ years. - 5 million The only surviving wild population of one-humped camels occurs in _________. - Australia The opposite extreme of a completely random distributional patter is a completely ________ pattern. - nested The Piceance Basin is in _______________. - western Colorado The Platyhelminthes are the _______. - flatworms the platyhelminthes are the - flatworms The Platyrrhini includes the New World monkeys and the ____________. - Marmosets The Pleistocene Epoch ended roughly __ years ago. - 8000 the plover nests far inland on grasslands - mountain The pollex is a technical term for ________. - the thumb The Red-billed Leiothrix was introduced to Hawaii from _____. - China The reproductive efficiency of capybara is ______ that of cattle. - six times the so-called climax vegetation refers to the in an area - original vegetation the so-called fynbos occurs in - south africa The Spadefoot toads are native to _____. - North America The Strepsirrhini broke off the main Primate lineage during the __________. - Cretaceous The symbiotic relationship between plant and Rhizobium is ___ in nature. - mutualisitc The tawny frogmouth is a common bird in _____. - australia The temperature of the ________ determines the sex of alligator hatchlings. - nest cavity The term "plastron" refers to part of a turtle's ____. - shell The theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics was advanced by _____. - Lamarck the three-toed woodpecker inhabits the biome - taiga The Tree Lizards inhabit _____. - pinyon-juniper woodland The tropics may harbor more species with narrower niches than temperate species. - true The upper bone in the forelimbs of all tetrapods is called the _____. - humerus The US Forest Service is under the Department of ___________. - Agriculture The US Park Service is an agency under the Department of _________. - Interior the US park service is an agency under the department of the - interior The USFWS __________________ to help conserve Concho River Water Snakes. - created artificial riffles The Vassa forages on _______. - Lemurs The Vassa is an ecological replacement for _____. - cats The Virginia Opossum arrived in North America in the _________. - Pilocene The Whistling Ducks were once called ____ ducks. - tree The wombats of Australia are convergent with _________ of North America. - groundhogs The yellow-bellied siskin is a type of - finch theory of "inheritance of acquired characteristics" was advanced by - lamarck There are __ surviving species of Order Monotremata. - 3 There are ____ embryonic tissue layers in evolutionarily more advanced animals. - three There are ____ embryonic tissue layers. - 3 There are ____ species of Mergansers in North America. - 3 There are _____ native species of crow and jays in New Zealand. - 0 There are ______ species of waxwings worldwide. - 3 There are about ______ species of birds in the world. - 9700 There are actually ____ species of kiwi. - 3 there are embryonic tissue layers - 3 there are embryonic tissue layers in evolutionarily more advanced animals - 3 There are no native species of chameleons in Madagascar. - false There are roughly ___ species of Marmosets. - 26 There are roughly ____ species of salamanders. - 310 There are roughly _____ species of caecilians. - 165 there is a native species of crow found only in hawaii - true There is a native species of crow found only in Hawaii. - True There is(are) _____ mechanisms for sexual selection to follow. - 2 There is(are) _____ types of secondary body cavity seen in the animalia. - two those plant or animal species that play critical roles in a community are called species keystone thought to represent the worlds most primitive living rodent - mountain beaver Three-wattled bellbirds are indigenous to the _____. - neotropics three-wattled bellbirds are indigenous to the - neotropics through evolutionary process, species may become increasingly adapted for narrower environmental conditions and this can make them more rare - true Through the evolutionary process, species may become increasingly adapted for narrower environmental conditions and this can make them more rare. - true Thrushes are found woldwide except in _____. - new zealand thrushes are found worldwide except in - new zealand tiny pores in the leaves of vascular plants - stomata Titmice are in the same family as the _______ - chickadees titmice are in the same family as the - chickadees To be a good candidate for wildlife farming a species should have a ____________ output. high reproductive top predator in food chain is - tertiary consumer top predator in siberian taiga is the - siberian tiger tortoise burrow provides a refuge for various species of amphibians, reptiles and mammals true Tortoises filled the niche of large grazing herbivores ________________. - on islands near the equator Tortoises survive today in the Indian Ocean only on the island of _______. - Aldabra Tortuguera is a protected area in _______________. - Costa Rica tortuguera is a protected area in - costa rica Tortuguera was established as a protected area for _____________. - Sea Turtles tortuguera was established as a protected area for - sea turtles Toucanets are related to ______. - woodpeckers toucanets are related to - woodpeckers Toxic modes of chemicals often affect the ____ in cells. - mitochondria toxic modes of chemicals often affect the in cells - mitochondria tree apparently produces paclitaxel - pacific yew tree lizards inhabit - pinyon juniper woodland Tropical forests are about ____ as productive as savannahs. - 1/10 tropics may habor mire species with narrower niches than temperate plants - true types of secondary body cavity seen in animalia - 2 upper bone in the forearms of all tetrapods - humerus us forest service is under the department of - agriculture usfws to help conserve concho river water snakes - created artificial riffles varied thrush is a species found in the understory of - old growth vast areas of the steppe in the old soviet union were plowed under to raise and irrigated with water from the aral sea - cotton very fast predators that feed by running down their prey - whiptails wading birds in everglades have declined due to water birds of several spexies have increased in new york harbor - true water moves through soil to groundwater by process of - percolation Water moves through soil to the groundwater by the process of ____. - percolation weasel-like taiga animal that feeds on porcupines - fisher wettest spot on earth is in a tropical forest - on an island what do the black footed ferret red wolf spix macaw and pere davids deer have in common cannot survive without captive breeding Which of the following is an odd-toed ungulate. - Tapir which two species are highly dependent on the gopher tortoise burrow to survive - gopher frog and florida mouse whistling ducks were once called - tree ducks White pelicans differ from other members of the order in that they do not ______. - dive from the air for food white pelicans differ from other members of the order in that they do not - dive from the air for food white-headed woodpecker is a highly adapted species that lives only in old growth forests of the pacific northwest - false Whooping cranes originally nested only in _____. - canada whooping cranes originally nested only in - canada Widow birds are native to the ________ Zoogeographic Region. - Ethiopian Wildlife ranching operations often combine the scale of hides and licenses to hunt with the sale of _____. - meat wildlife trade monitoring network of the iucn and the wwf - traffic Wilson and Reeder classify the marsupials into ___ orders. - 7 with proper controls harvesting of capybara can be a valuable conservation tool because it encourages ranchers to preserve wetland habitats - true Wolverines belong to the same family as the ________. - Fisher Wood storks and ____ both have un-feathered heads. - vultures wood storks and have un-feathered heads - vultures Woodpeckers have ____ feet, where two toes point forward and one or two point backward. zygodactyl woodpecks have feet, where two toes point forward and one or two point backwards zygodactyl wrote a book on communities of lizards in deserts around the world - eric pianka wrote fascinating book called island waterfowl - milton weller yellow-bellied siskin is a type of - finch Zebra mussels may concentrate toxins in their tissues that ultimately poison certain species of _________. - diving ducks Zebra Mussels were first seen in the US in ____________ in 1988. - Lake St. Clair Zoogeographic regions are based chiefly on ________________. - ... zoogeographic regions are based on - evolutionary history zygote has sets of chromosomes - 2