NUMBERS
>18000 - A hunter from Louisiana, who shot a radio-collared lynx in Colorado, was fined _________
$ < 3 - Recently trappers in LA were earning ______ per nutria pelt.
$17,000 - The cost of removing 300 prairie dogs from the Lubbock site was ______________
$700 - According to the Miami Herald in 1996 people were killing _____ worth of frogs per night.
0 - A total of ____ nutria was processed in 1996-1997 for human consumption
0 - There are __ federally listed species of amphibians in Florida.
1. - According to MPM many wildlifers, if given a choice would study CMVs.
1. - False: All ranchers in the US oppose wolf re-introductions.
1. - Icthyostega fossils are known from what is now Greenland.
1. - One concern regarding the harvest in Big Cypress NP was the amount of air boat damage to the
habitat of Snail Kites and Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows.
1. - Priority numbers for listing species under the ESA are based on population size.
1. - The California Wildlife Protection Act (Proposition 117) banned hunting of Mountain Lions.
1. - The Patagonian Toothfish is managed by a group of 24 nations that make up the CCAMLR.
1. - When the Welland canal was deepened lampreys invaded Lake Erie.
1. - White line disease is found in certain corals in Florida.
2 - As noted in lecture, there are __ main foraging types (not species!) of gulls.
2. - A hunter from Louisiana, who shot a radio-collared lynx in Colorado, was fined >$18000.
2. - CITES is an example of a wildlife classification scheme based on an international agreement.
2. - False: Mountain Lions have never been know to kill humans.
2. - In order for jaws to function properly an animal must be able to overcome roll, pitch, and yaw.
2. - Natives on the Yukon River harvest nemeryaq which are actually lampreys.
2. - Only species in the class insecta can be exempt of provisions in the Endangered Species Act.
2. - Piping plovers in Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge were mostly preyed on by Great Black-backed
gulls.
2. - Prairie dogs are especially vulnerable to Sylvatic Plague.
2. - The now extinct gastric-brooding frog was known only from Australia.
3 - The phylum chordate is subdivided into __ subphyla.
3 - There are basically ___ kinds of red tides.
3 - There were ____ recognizable evolutionary lines of fossil amphibians.
3. - According to Sea Web as many as 1.1 million pounds of marlin were discarded by the swordfish
industry between 1995-1996.
3. - BTO researchers found that the Grey Heron had increased to higher numbers than ever reported
throughout history.
3. - Chirping frogs were first seen in Hawaii in the mid 1980s.
3. - False: Piping Plovers are restricted to the east coast of the United States.
3. - Scallops are members of the phylum Mollusca.
3. - Sea Horses are especially popular in markets in traditional medicine in China.
3. - The state of Louisiana constructed six plants to process nutria for human consumption.
3. - The structurally simplest animals we discussed are the sponges.
3. - The urochordata are chordates that are sessile as adults and/but have a free-swimming larva.
4. - Agriculturalists in Britain blamed the declines in some species on predation by sparrow hawks.
4. - Amphiumas of the following is an example of a paedogenetic group of amphibian species.
4. - Box Jellyfish are extremely dangerous species found in the region of tropical Australia.
4. - False: All lampreys are parasitic.
4. - False: The Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly once occurred statewide in Florida.
4. - Sharks are now commonly harvested for their cartilage, which is said to function as a cancer
preventative.
4. - The population of Black-tailed Prairie Dogs in Lubbock, Texas could be as high as 40,000.
4. - True: Black Skimmers benefited from gull control at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
4. - When re-introduced wolves kill livestock where they are re-introduced, the livestock owner is paid
fair market value for the loss.
5 billion - According to Seton, at the start of the 20th century there were _____________ prairie dogs on
the Great Plains
5. - A frog gig is basically a multi-pronged spear.
5. - Cannonball jellyfish are a good species for commercial harvest because they have high reproductive
rates.
5. - Creating stepping-stone habitat is a technique used by Dr. Tom Emmel to aid the Schaus Swallowtail
Butterfly.
5. - External fertilization is characteristic of the frogs and toads.
5. - Re-introductions of Canada Lynx in Colorado all took place on National Forest land.
5. - TFM is a chemical once used to control lampreys.
5. - The main problem caused by Nutria in Louisiana is that they destroy wetland and farmland
vegetation.
5. - To protect Lake Michigan from possible invasion by Asian carp, fishery managers put up an electrical
barrier.
5. - True: At the 2002 CITES meeting, the US agreed with the motion to allow a one time sale of ivory
stockpiled in five African nations.
6. - A study of 24 species of breeding birds in Britain conducted by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
found that although many species were declining a few species were increasing.
6. - According to the Miami Herald in 1996 people were killing $700 worth of frogs per night.
6. - Bleaching of coral reefs can be caused by environmental stress.
6. - False: The Patagonian Toothfish is officially listed as endangered.
6. - Management of snow geese legally falls under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
6. - The blastula is a hollow ball of cells.
6. - The fossil amphibians and the lobe-finned fishes are linked by similarities in the forelimb bone
pattern.
6. - The parasitic sea lamprey is characterized by having an oral disk.
6. - When exposed to air, phostoxin reacts to form hydrogen phosphide.
7. - All chordates have dorsal hollow nerve cord.
7. - Any swordfish that are caught that are not large enough by established standards are thrown
overboard.
7. - As noted in lecture, there are 2 main foraging types (not species!) of gulls.
7. - Canada Lynx feed principally on Snowshoe Hares.
7. - Cell wall of chitin is a cellular structure that is typical only of species in the kingdom Fungi.
7. - Sexual coupling in species that have external fertilizatioin is called amplexus.
7. - The MFC left the recreational scallop season open for 2 months because of economic pressure.
7. - The range of Black-footed Ferret historically coincided more or less with the range of prairie dogs.
7. - Zimbabwe is one of the African nations that argued for lifting the ban on ivory trade.
8 - The FWC lists __ species of invertebrates as being threatened, or endangered.
8 - There are roughly ____ times as many frogs and toads as there are salamanders.
8 - When first considered for listing under the ESA, the Black-tailed Prairie dog was assigned a priority
number of ___
8. - After the scallops declined, the state (through the MFC) banned commercial harvest of scallops
statewide.
8. - Fishers (Martes pennati) have recently been re-introduced to the state of Tennessee.
8. - India is the nation that joined Kenya and fought against permanently lifting the ban on ivory trade.
8. - Metamorphosis refers to the developmental change from juvenile to adult.
8. - Sponges once were, but no longer are, commercially harvested out of Key West.
8. - The formation of a communal foam nest is seen in certain tree frogs in Africa.
8. - The US government recently closed more than 132,000 square miles of the Atlantic to commercial
swordfishing because these areas are swordfish nursery areas.
8. - Varmint hunters shoot prairie dogs chiefly for fun.
8. - Wisconsin deer may have been infected with CWD by eating Protein pellets.
9 - Before 1997 the scallop season ran for __ months in Florida.
9. - According to SUSA about 30 million pounds of Swordfish are consumed by the US public each year.
9. - False: The Black-tailed Prairie dog is protected by state law in several states.
9. - In 1996, public outcry led to a ban on the harvest of frogs in Big Cypress National Preserve.
9. - Red tides are caused by a species from the kingdom protista.
9. - Scallops began to disappear in the region of the Gulf of Mexico south of the Suwanee river.
9. - Sea horses commonly live over beds of sea grass.
9. - The phylum chordate is subdivided into 3 subphyla.
9. - The presence of external gills is a juvenile characteristic retained by some paedogenetic species.
9. - Voters in Oregon banned the hunting of mountain lions with hounds.
10. - False: The Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow spends the winter in Cuba.
10. - Fish that live in marine environments and ascend creeks and streams to breed are called
anadromous.
10. - In one study of British farmland birds researchers found that about 20% of all European birds are
now a conservation concern.
10. - Nutria were introduced to the US from Argentina.
10. - Species in the kingdom Monera are characterized by having prokaryotic cells.
10. - The FWC lists 8 species of invertebrates as being threatened, or endangered.
10. - The Placoderms are thought to have evolved from the Ostracoderms.
10. - There were 3 recognizable evolutionary lines of fossil amphibians.
10. - True: Before 1996, frog gigging for consumption by a person's family was legal in Big Cypress
National Preserve.
11. - Cougars have recently been found in South Dakota and Minnesota.
11. - False: The four chordate characteristics are all visible in the adults of all chordate species.
11. - Lobsters and shrimp are species in the phylum Anthropoda.
11. - Red Tides toxins are produced by Dinoflagellates.
11. - The common carp is native to Eurasia.
11. - The Farm Bureau is the organization that has vehemently opposed Lynx re-introductions to
Colorado.
11. - The fossil lineages of the amphibians are recognizable on the basis of the struction of the
vertebrae.
11. - The largest population of re-introduced black-footed ferrets (164 individuals) is in South Dakota.
11. - USFWS scientists wanted to kill certain gulls at the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in
Massachusetts because the gulls were killing federally listed Piping Plovers.
12 million - There are an estimated ___________________ feral cats in Australia.
12. - Both the frogs and the salamanders produce anamniote eggs.
12. - Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows typically nest in one meter tall saw grass.
12. - Collar cells are cells that trap tiny food particles as water flows through the body wall of sponges.
12. - CWD is caused by Prions.
12. - Flatworms belong to the phylum Platyhelminthes.
12. - In August 2004, based on new information, the USFWS ruled that the Black-tailed Prairie Dog
should not be listed.
12. - Some species of eels are catadromous species.
12. - Swordfish USA (SUSA) claims there are roughly 17 million recreational fishers and 250 commercial
swordfish boats in the North Atlantic.
12. - Two species of kangaroo are only harvested on Flinders Island and Tasmania.
13. - Coral reefs are formed by species in the phylum Cnidaria.
13. - Fishers are members of the weasel family.
13. - Hagfish use slime production as a defense mechanism.
13. - In 1989, CITES banned international trade in ivory.
13. - In April 1996 a ranger in Big Cypress found that 67 boats of frog leg catches weighed 4500 lbs.
13. - Labyrinthine infolded tooth enamel is a characteristic shared by the amphibians and certain lobefinned fishes.
13. - One problem with harvesting sharks commercially is that they are viviparous.
13. - The Black-tailed Prairie Dog inhabits the short grass prairie zone of the Great Planes.
13. - The solid ball of cells formed through cleavage is called a morula.
14. - A pseudocoelom is characteristic of the nematodes.
14. - A total of 0 nutria was processed in 1996-1997 for human consumption in Louisiana.
14. - All chordates have pharyngeal gill slits.
14. - Currently the market for US caught cannonball jellyfish exists especially in Korea.
14. - In Darwin's frog in Chile, the young frogs develop in father's vocal sac.
14. - Many sea horses are harvested by fishers from the Philippines.
14. - The "Give Swordfish a Break" campaign was run by Sea Web and Natural Resources Defense
Council.
14. - the Predator Defense Institute attacked the Oregon state wildlife agency over its methods for
studying mountain lion population size.
14. - The USFWS used DRC-1339 to kill gulls in Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
15. - CWD was first seen in captive deer in Colorado.
15. - False: Plants are not listed by CITES.
15. - Ozone has not been suggested as a cause of deformities in frogs.
15. - Sea Horses are actually bony fish.
15. - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly may avoid extinction in the wild because of a partnership between
conservation scientists and a golfing association.
15. - There are about 70 species of jawless vertebrates in the world today.
15. - Viva! Is the animal rights advocacy group that led the campaign to ban the sale of kangaroo meat in
UK grocery stores.
15. - When first considered for listing under the ESA, the Black-tailed Prairie dog was assigned a priority
number of 8.
15. - When the US government closed more than 132,000 square miles to commercial swordfishing in
the Atlantic, the sponsors of the 'Give Swordfish a Break' formally ended the campaign.
16. - Although Japan supported the one time sale of ivory, the sale was opposed by China.
16. - Asian Carp may actually leap into boats because outboard motors frighten them.
16. - False: Lampreys are chiefly catadromous.
16. - In Wisconsin, authorities plan to kill 25000 deer in a circle with a 10 mile radius around a spot
where 18 deer tested positive for CWD.
16. - Intracellular digestion by amoebocytes is typical of sponges.
16. - Members of the Phylum Platyhelminthes (Flatworms) have no secondary body cavity.
16. - Moulton was able to buy some dried seahorses at a market in Tarpon Springs.
16. - There are 0 federally listed species of amphibians in Florida.
16. - Wide scale poisioning of prairie dogs was undertaken between 1920 and 1970 by the agency now
known as USDA Wildlife Services.
17. - Before 1997 the scallop season ran for 9 months in Florida.
17. - Common Terns is one of the species that benefited most from gull culling at Monomoy National
Wildlife Refuge.
17. - Most of the species listed by CITES are categorized in Appendix II.
17. - Neoteny refers to the facultative or environmentally determined form of paedomorphosis.
17. - Researches believe that the declines seen in British farmland birds are due to farming practices.
17. - The Dusky Seaside Sparrow that went extinct in Florida was a victim of Development.
17. - The individuals used in re-introductions of the black-footed ferret came from captive breeding.
17. - The Marine Mammal Protection act of 1972 was enacted to protect dolphins from mortality due to
fishing.
17. - When lampreys reached the upper Great Lakes the Lake Trout fishery collapsed.
18. - A favorite food of fishers in some areas is porcupine.
18. - According to Viva!, Bulgaria is the nation that imports the greatest amount of kangaroo meat.
18. - In the film The Perfect Storm, the crew was fishing for Atlantic Swordfish.
18. - People in Kentucky developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease like symptoms after eating Squirrel brains.
18. - Roughly 164 nations have signed the CITES agreement.
18. - The cost of removing 300 prairie dogs from the Lubbock site was $17000.
18. - The genus Eleutherodactylus a genus of chirping frogs has 100 species scattered over the West
Indies.
18. - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly survived because a few individuals were none of these (not
protected by the NPS, naturally large, or had mated with an introduced species).
18. - Typically, invertebrates use their gills for feeding.
19. - A female snow goose can lose 40% of her body mass producing a single clutch.
19. - About 150 nutria were able to escape from "escape proof" cages in Louisiana in 1940 following a
hurricane.
19. - Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is similar to Mad Cow Disease seen in England.
19. - Grass Carp were introduced to the US to control aquatic weeds.
19. - In deuterostomes the anus froms from the blastopore.
19. - Japan was the non-African nation that wanted the ivory trade to be reinstated.
19. - Modern hagfishes are found only in marine environments.
19. - The Coelocanth is the sole surviving member of the lobe-finned fishes.
19. - There are basically 3 kinds of red tides.
20 - The US imports about _____ percent of all legally harvested Patagonian Toothfish.
20 million - By the late 1950s there roughly _________________ nutria in the US
20. - In addition to being toxic bufotenine is also an hallucinogen.
20. - In Louisiana, authorities recently hoped to persuade the public to eat nutria meat.
20. - Most of the kangaroo meat commercially harvested in Australia is exported to European countries.
20. - The blastopore becomes the mouth in the development of protostomes.
20. - The currently accepted theory among biologists on the evolution of the vertebrates is based on
Garstang's hyphothesis.
20. - The fisher re-introductions were funded in part by Duracell.
20. - The frog most sought after in Big Cypress National Preserve was the pig frog.
20. - There are actually two species of Patagonian Toothfish.
20. - True: Red tides are not always characterized by a change in the water color.
20% - In a study, British farmland birds researchers found that about ______ of all european birds are
now a conservation concern
21. - Cannonball jellyfish belong to the Phylum cnidaria.
21. - Cnidaria is one of the three most represented phyla of invertebrates listed by FCREPA.
21. - CWD has been known to infect Elk as well as deer.
21. - Five species of kangaroo are harvested commercially on the mainland of Australia.
21. - In a poll, 75% of Australians favored the killing of feral cats.
21. - Jaws evolved from the gill arches.
21. - TFM may be replaced in the future by Baylucide.
21. - The Utah Prairie Dog is listed as endangered.
21. - There are roughly 8 times as many frogs and toads as there are salamanders.
22,000 - There are possibly __________ species of bony fishes.
22. - Defenders of Wildlife is the non-governmental organization that pushed for and participated in the
re-introduction of gray wolves to Idaho and Yellowstone National Park.
22. - Paedomorphosis is a characteristic of certain salamanders.
22. - Since European contact, the Black-tailed Prairie dog has lost about 99% of its original 100 million
acres of habitat.
22. - Swordfish are harvested commercially using long lines.
22. - The invertebrate phylum Porifera has no species listed by the FWC.
22. - The Laughing Gull is a common scavenging species of the Gulf Coast of Florida.
22. - The Ostracoderms may have used the bone in their skin for a mineral reservoir.
22. - Which of the following is the correct sequence in going from smaller groups to larger? See below.
23. - In 1981, a population of Black-footed Ferrets was found near Meeteese in Wyoming.
23. - Large scale commercial fishing for Patagonian Toothfish began in the 1990s.
23. - Most non-phylogenetic wildlife classification schemes are based on distribution and abundance.
23. - The Golden Toad which has recently decline precipitously is native to Costa Rica.
23. - The sea squirts belong to the subphylum urochordata.
23. - The Zebra Mussel is an introduced species in North America that belongs to the phylum Mollusca.
23. - When the USFWS increased the bag limit on snow geese, the HSUS sued them to stop the increase.
24. - A true coelom is a secondary body cavity that is surrounded by mesoderm and mesoderm.
24. - Black-footed ferrets are vulnerable to canine distemper as well as sylvatic plague.
24. - Ducks Unlimited is the non-governmental organization that claims increased numbers of snow
geese are destroying arctic vegetation.
24. - In the 1970s Bighead and Silver Carp were introduced to the US to control Mollusks and algae.
24. - Sea urchins belong to the phylum Echinodermata.
24. - Sirens are primitive salamanders that have external gills, and front legs but no hind legs.
24. - Which of the following is the correct sequence in groing from larger groups to smaller? See below.
25,000 - In Wisconsin, authorities plan to kill _______ deer in a circle with a 10 mile radius around a spot
where 18 deer tested positive for CWD.
25. - "Egging", means the removal of eggs from snow goose nests will likely be ineffective in managing
snow geese because nests are far from any people.
25. - By 1984 the Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly was reduced to a total of 70 individuals.
25. - In 1997, the US Senate decided to lift the ban on imports of Mexican tuna.
25. - The muskrat is a once commercially important native North American furbearer that weighs about
2 lbs.
25. - The Ostracoderms may have used their bony skin for protection.
25. - Today sponges are commercially harvested in Florida only out of Tarpon Springs.
25. - When sirens aestivate they produce a mucous cocoon like the African lungfish.
26. - Amphioxus is a typical member of the subphylum cephalochordate.
26. - Atlantic Swordfish feed chiefly on squid and mackerel as adults.
26. - False: In 1999, the USFWS ruled that there was sufficient evidence to warrant an emergency listing
for the Black-tailed Prairie Dog.
26. - Respiration occurs across a pharyngeal membrane in the plethodontidae.
26. - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly is found only in the Florida Keys.
26. - There are an estimated 12 million feral cats in Australia.
26. - When resources are low, some organisms that cause red tides revert to sexual reproduction.
27. - Hemichordata is the phylum of marine, acorn worms.
27. - In 1999 petitioners listed three threats to the Black-tailed Prairie Dog.
27. - International trade in endangered species is monitored by CITES.
27. - Moulton believes that few invertebrate species are federally listed in Florida because invertebrates
have not been studied extensively.
27. - The fishing technique used to catch Patagonian Toothfish is said to have resulted in the deaths of
numerous sea birds.
27. - The Hedonic glands play an active role in salamander courtship.
28. - A species of lobe finned fish still occurs in the Indian Ocean.
28. - Embyonic genes switch on during the gastrula phase of development.
28. - ICCAT is the group that manages Atlantic Swordfish.
28. - In the vertebrates the gills are internal and connected to the digestive tube.
28. - Recently trappers in Louisiana were earning about $<3 per nutria pelt.
29. - According to Swordfish USA about 2/3 of the swordfish consumed in the US comes from the Pacific
Ocean.
29. - Among the vertebrates a prominent notochord is found in adult members of the class Agnatha.
29. - Petitioners originally sought an "emergency" candidate 2 categorization for the Black-tailed Prairie
Dog in 1994.
29. - Spermatophores are structures produced by male salamanders for reproductive purposes.
29. - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly was nearly wiped out in 1992 because of Hurricane Andrew.
30 million pounds - According to SUSA about _______________ of Swordfish are consumed by the US
public each year
30. - Nutria were originally introduced to establish a fur industry.
30. - Scientists once thought (incorrectly) that Amphioxus was a larval lamprey that underwent
paedomorphosis.
30. - The US imports about 20 percent of all legally harvested Patagonian Toothfish.
30. - Toads secrete a poison from the Parotoid glands on their heads.
31. - Deformed frogs were first seen in Minnesota in the 1990s.
31. - In 1990, the US banned imports of tuna from Mexico because of dolphin mortality.
31. - Once thought to be extinct, a population of Black-footed Ferrets was found in South Dakota in
1964.
31. - The ostracoderms were the first vertebrates.
32. - Officials in Lubbock plan to use phostoxin to kill prairie dogs.
32. - Pacific Ocean tuna were considered "Dolphin Safe" after IATTC criteria were established.
32. - The so-called poison arrow frogs are native to Central and South America.
33. - External fertilization is seen in primitive salamanders.
33. - Phostoxin reacts with H2O in the atmosphere to become activated.
33. - The Patagonian Toothfish is harvested using long lines.
34. - Caecilians are characterized by having internal fertilization.
34. - Priority numbers for listing species under the ESA are based on population size.
34. - There are possibly 22,000 species of bony fishes.
35. - By the late 1950s there roughly 20 million nutria in the US.
35. - Chirping frogs were introduced to Hawaii from Puerto Rico.
35. - Paired fins were an adaptation that enabled the jaws to work efficiently.
36. - According to Seton, at the start of the twentieth century there were 5 billion prairie dogs on the
Great Plains.
36. - The placoderms were the first jawed vertebrates.
40,000 - The population of Black-tailed Prarie Dogs in Lubbock, Texas could be as high as _________
40% - A female snow goose can lose _____ of her body mass producing a single clutch.
70 - By 1984 the Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly was reduced to a total of ____ individuals.
70 - There are about ____ species of jawless vertebrates in the world today.
75% - In a poll, ____ of Australians favored the killing of feral cats.
99% - Since European contact, the Black-tailed Prairie dog has lost about _____ of its original 100 million
acres of habitat.
100 - The genus Eleutherodactylus a genus of chirping frogs has ______ species scattered over the West
Indies.
164 - Roughly _____ nations have signed the CITES agreement.
250 - Swordfish USA (SUSA) claims there are roughly 17 million recreational fishers and ________
commercial swordfish boats in the North Atlantic.
1989 - In _______, CITES banned international trade in ivory
1990s - Large scale commercial fishing for Patagonian Toothfish began in the _______.
4500 - In April 1996 a ranger in Big Cypress found that 67 boats of frog leg catches weighed _____ lbs.
A
A mineral reservoir - The Ostracoderms may have used the bone in their skin for ________________
Africa - The formation of a communal foam nest is seen in certain tree frogs in ______________.
Agnatha - Among the vertebrates a prominent notochord is found in adult members of the class
____________
Amphiumas - ________________ of the following is an example of a paedogenetic group of amphibian
species.
amplexus - Sexual coupling in species that have external fertilizatioin is called ______________.
an oral disk - The parasitic sea lamprey is characterized by having ____________________
anadromous - Fish that live in marine environments and ascend creeks and streams to breed are called
___________
anamiote - Both the frogs and the salamanders produce ____________ eggs.
Anthropoda - Lobsters and shrimp are species in the phylum ____________
anus - In deuterostomes the ______ froms from the blastopore.
aquatic weeds - Grass Carp were introduced to the US to control ___________.
Argentina - Nutria was introduced to the US from _____________
Atlantic Swordfish - In the film The Perfect Storm, the crew was fishing for _____________.
Australia - The now extinct gastric-brooding frog was known only from ____________.
B
Baylucide - TFM may be replaced in the future by _____________.
beds of sea grass - Sea horses commonly live over _______________
Black-tailed - The _____________ Prairie Dog inhabots the short grass prairie zone of the Great Planes
bony fish - Sea Horses are actually _____________
Box Jellyfish - ____________ are extremely dangerous species found in the region of tropical Australia
breeding - A study of 24 species of __________ birds in Britain conducted by the BTO found that
although many species were declining..
Bulgaria - According to Viva!, _______ is the nation that imports the greatest amount of kangaroo meat.
C
candidate 2 - Petitioners originally sought an "emergency" ___________ categorization for the Blacktailed Prairie Dog in 1994.
canine distemper - Black-footed ferrets are vulnerable to ________________ as well as sylvatic plague
Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows - One concern regarding the harvest in Big Cypres NP was the amount of
airboat damage to the habitats of the Snail Kites and __________________
captive breeding - The individuals used in re-introductions of the black-footed ferret came from
_________________
cartilage - Sharks are now commonly harvested for their _________, which is said to function as a cancer
preventative.
CCAMLR - The Patagonian Toothfish is managed by a group of 24 nations that make up the
_______________.
Cell wall of chitin - __________________ is a cellular structure that is typical only of species in the
kingdom Fungi.
Central and South America - The so-called poison arrow frogs are native to ________________.
cephalochordate - Amphioxus is a typical member of the subphylum _____________________
China - Although Japan supported the one time sale of ivory, the sale was opposed by _______
China - Sea Horses are especially popular in markets in traditional medicine in ___________
CITES - _________ is an example of a wildlife classification scheme based on an international agreement.
CITES - International trade in endangered species is monitored by ___________
CMVs - According to MPM many wildlifers, if given a choice would study _______
Cnidaria - _________________ is one of the three most represented phyla of invertebrates listed by
FCREPA.
Cnidaria - Cannonball jellyfish belong to the Phylum _________
Cnidaria - Coral reefs are formed by species in the phylum ___________
Coelocanth - The ______________ is the sole surviving member of the lobe-finned fishes.
Collar cells - ______________ are cells that trap tiny food particles as water flows through the body wall
of sponges.
Colorado - CWD was first seen in captive deer in ______________
Common Terns - _____________ is one of the species that benefited most from gull culling at Monomoy
National Wildlife Refuge.
connected to the digestive tube - In the vertebrates the gills are internal and _____________________
corals - White line disease is found in certain _______ in Florida.
Costa Rica - 23. The Golden Toad which has recently decline precipitously is native to Costa Rica.
D
Defenders of Wildlife - _______________________ is the non-governmental organization that pushed
for and participated in the re-introduction of gray wolves to Idaho and Yellowstone National Park.
destroy wetland and farmland vegetation - The main problem caused by Nutria in Louisiana is that they
___________________________
Development - The Dusky Seaside Sparrow that went extinct in Florida was a victim of _______________
Dinoflagellates - Red Tides toxins are produced by _______________
distribution and abundance - Most non-phylogenetic wildlife classification schemes are based on
______________
dorsal hollow nerve cord - All chordates have _________________
DRC-1339 - The USFWS used ________ to kill gulls in Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
Ducks Unlimited - _______________ is the non-governmental organization that claims increased
numbers of snow geese are destroying arctic vegetation.
Duracell - The fisher re-introductions were funded in part by ____________
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Echinodermata - Sea urchins belong to the phylum _________________
economic pressure - The MFC left the recreational scallop season open for 2 months because of
____________________
eels - Some species of _________ are catadromous species.
Elk - CWD has been known to infect ____ as well as deer.
enviornmental stress - Bleaching of coral reefs can be caused by ___________
Eurasia - The common carp is native to __________
European - Most of the kangaroo meat commercially harvested in Australia is exported to
____________ countries.
external gills - The presence of ______________ is a juvenile characteristic retained by some
paedogenetic species.
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fair market value for the loss - When re-introduced wolves kill livestock where they are re-introduced,
the livestock owner is ________________
False - All lampreys are parasitic.
False - All ranchers in the US oppose wolf re-introductions
False - In 1999, the USFWS ruled that there was sufficient evidence to warrant an emergency listing for
the Black-tailed Praire Dog
False - Lampreys are chiefly catadromous.
False - Mountain Lions have never been known to kill humans.
False - Piping Plovers are restricted to the east coast of the United States.
False - Plants are not listed by CITES.
False - The black-tailed prairie dog is protected by state law in several states
False - The Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow spends the winter in Cuba.
False - The four chordate characteristics are all visible in the adults of all chordate species.
False - The Patagonian Toothfish is officially listed as endangered.
False - The Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly once occurred statewide in Florida.
Farm Burea - The _____________ is the organization that has vehemently opposed Lynx reintroductions to Colorado.
farming practices - Researchers believe that the declines seen in British farmland birds are due to
______________
father's vocal sac - In Darwin's frog in Chile, the young frogs develop in _________________.
feeding - Typically, invertebrates use their gills for _________.
Five - ________ species of kangaroo are harvested commercially on the mainland of Australia.
forelimb bone pattern - The fossil amphibians and the lobe-finned fishes are linked by similarities in the
_______________________
formally ended the campaign - When the US government closed more than 132,000 square miles to
commercial swordfishing in the Atlantic, the sponsors of the 'Give Swordfish a Break'
________________________.
frogs - In 1996, public outcry led to a ban on the harvest of _____ in Big Cypress National Preserve.
frogs and toads - External fertilization is characteristic of the _______________________
fun - Varmint hunters shoot praire dogs chiefly for _____
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Garstang's - The currently accepted theory among biologists on the evolution of the vertebrates is based
on ____________ hyphothesis.
gastrula - Embyonic genes switch on during the __________ phase of development.
gill arches - Jaws evolved from the _________.
golfing - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly may avoid extinction in the wild because of a partnership
between conservation scientists and a _________ association.
Great Black-backed - 2. Piping plovers in Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge were mostly preyed on by
___________ gulls.
Greenland - Icthyostega fossils are known from what is now ____________.
Grey Heron - BTO researchers found that the _________ had increased to higher numbers than ever
reported throughout history.
H
H20 - Phostoxin reacts with ________ in the atmosphere to become activated.
Hagfish - ________________ use slime production as a defense mechanism.
hallucinogen - In addition to being toxic bufotenine is also an ______________.
have high reproductive rates - Cannonball jellyfish are a good species for commercial harvest because
they ________________
have not been studied extensively - Moulton believes that few invertebrate species are federally listed
in Florida because invertebrates ___________________
Hemichordata - __________________is the phylum of marine, acorn worms.
hollow ball of cells - The blastula is a ____________
hounds - Voters in Oregon banned the hunting of mountain lions with __________
HSUS - When the USFWS increased the bag limit on snow geese, the _____ sued them to stop the
increase.
hurricane - About 150 nutria were able to escape from escape proof cages in LA in 1940 following a
____________
Hurricane Andrew - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly was nearly wiped out in 1992 because of
______________________
hydrogen phosphide - When exposed to air, phostoxin reacts to form ___________________
I
IATTC - Pacific Ocean tuna were considered "Dolphin Safe" after ___________ criteria were established.
ICCAT - _________ is the group that manages Atlantic Swordfish.
II - Most of the species listed by CITES are categorized in Appendix ___
India - ___________ is the nation that joined Kenya fought against permantly lifting the ban on ivory
trade
insecta - Only species in the class ________ can be exempt of provisions in the Endangered Species Act.
internal fertilization - Caecilians are characterized by having _______________
J
Japan - __________ was the non-African nation that wanted the ivory trade to be reinstated.
K
Key West - Sponges once were, but no longer are, commercially harvested out of ______________
killing federally listed Piping Plovers - USFWS scientists wanted to kill certain gulls at the Monomoy
National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts because the gulls were ___________________________
Korea - Currently the market for US caught cannonball jellyfish exists especially in _________
L
Labyrinthine infolded tooth enamel - ____________________________________ is a characteristic
shared by the amphibians and certain lobe-finned fishes.
Lake Trout - When lampreys reached the upper Great Lakes the _____________ fishery collapsed.
lamprey - Scientists once thought (incorrectly) that Amphioxus was a larval __________ that underwent
paedomorphosis.
lampreys - Natives on the Yukon River harvest nemeryaq which are actually ____________
lampreys - TFM is a chemical once used to control _______________
lampreys - When the Welland canal was deepened ___________ invaded Lake Erie
Laughing - The ________ Gull is a common scavenging species of the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Life > Domain > Kingdom > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species - ...
Life>Domain>Kingdom>Phylum>Class>Order>Family>Genus>Species - What is the correct sequence of
classification headings?
long lines - Swordfish are harvested commercially using ____________
long lines - The Patagonian Toothfish is harvested using _________.
mackerel - Atlantic Swordfish feed chiefly on squid and _________ as adults.
M
Mad Cow Disease - 19. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is similar to ____________ seen in England.
marine - Modern hagfishes are found only in ______________ environments.
Marine Mammal Protection - The ______________________ act of 1972 was enacted to protect
dolphins from mortality due to fishing.
marlin - According to Sea Web as many as 1.1 million pounds of ________ were discarded by the
swordfish industry between 1995-1996.
mesoderm and mesoderm - A true coelom is a secondary body cavity that is surrounded by
______________________
Metamorphisis - _____________________ refers to the developmental change from juvenile to adult.
mid 1980s - Chirping frogs were first seen in Hawaii in the _______________.
Migratory Bird Treaty - Management of snow geese legally falls under the ________________ of 1918
Minnesota - Cougars have recently been found in SD and ___________
Minnesota - Deformed frogs were first seen in ____________ in the 1990s.
Mollusca - Scallops are members of the phylum ___________
Mollusks and algae - In the 1970s Bighead and Silver Carp were introduced to the US to control
_________________.
Monera - Species in the kingdom ________ are characterized by having prokaryotic cells.
morula - The solid ball of cells formed through cleavage is called a _____________
Mountain Lions - The CWPA (Prop 117) banned hunting of what?
multi-pronged spear - A frog gig is basically a ________________
muskrat - The ___________ is a once commercially important native North American furbearer that
weighs about 2 lbs.
N
National Forest - Re-introductions of Canada Lynx in Colorado all took place on ______________
Natural Resources Defense Council - The "Give Swordfish a Break" campaign was run by Sea Web and
_______________________
nematodes - A pseudocoelom is characteristic of the ____________
Neoteny - __________ refers to the facultative or environmentally determined form of
paedomorphosis.
nests are far from any people - "Egging", means the removal of eggs from snow goose nests will likely be
ineffective in managing snow geese because _____________________
no - Members of the Phylum Platyhelminthes (Flatworms) have ___ secondary body cavity.
none of these - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly survived because a few individuals were
_______________
not be listed - In August 2004, based on new information, the USFWS ruled that the Black-tailed Prairie
Dog should ____________________
O
one meter tall saw grass - Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows typically nest in ____________________
Oregon - The Predator Defense Institute attacked ________ state wildlife agency over its methods for
studying mountain lion population size.
ostracoderms - The _________ were the first vertebrates.
Ostracoderms - The Placoderms are thought to have evolved from the _____________.
outboard motors frighten them - Asian Carp may actually leap into boats because
_________________________.
Ozone - ________ has not been suggested as a cause of deformities in frogs.
P
Pacific - According to Swordfish USA about 2/3 of the swordfish consumed in the US comes from the
__________ Ocean.
Paired fins - __________ were an adaptation that enabled the jaws to work efficiently.
Parotoid - Toads secrete a poison from the ___________ glands on their heads.
pharyngeal gill slits - All chordates have _________________
phostoxin - Officials in Lubbock plan to use _____________ to kill prairie dogs
pig - The frog most sought after in Big Cypress National Preserve was the ____ frog
placoderms - The ___________ were the first jawed vertebrates
Platyhelminthes - Flatworms belong to the phylum ______________
plethodontidae - Respiration occurs across a pharyngeal membrane in the _________________.
population size - Priority numbers for listing species under the ESA are based on _______________
population size - Priority numbers for listing species under the ESA are based on
_______________________
porcupine - A favorite food of fishers in some areas is ___________
Porifera - The invertebrate phylum ___________ has no species listed by the FWC.
prairie dogs - The range of Black-footed Ferret historically coincided more or less with the range of
____________
primitive - External fertilization is seen in _________ salamanders.
Prions - CWD is caused by _____________
protection - The Ostracoderms may have used their bony skin for ________________
Protein pellets - Wisconsin deer may have been infected with CWD by eating ______________
protista - Red tides are caused by a species from the kingdom ____________
protostomes - The blastopore becomes the mouth in the development of __________________
Puerto Rico - Chirping frogs were introduced to Hawaii from ___________
put up an electrical barrier - To protect Lake Michigan from possible invasion by Asian carp, fishery
managers __________________
R
resources - When ___________ are low, some organisms that cause red tides revert to sexual
reproduction.
roll - In order for jaws to function properly an animal must be able to overcome ______, pitch, and yaw.
S
salamander courtship - The Hedonic glands play an active role in _________________________.
salamanders - Paedomorphosis is a characteristic of certain _____________.
Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly - Creating stepping-stone habitat is a technique used by Dr. Tom Emmel to
aid the ______________________
sea birds - The fishing technique used to catch Patagonian Toothfish is said to have resulted in the
deaths of numerous _______________
Sirens - _____________ are primitive salamanders that have external gills, and front legs but no hind
legs.
sirens - When ____________ aestivate they produce a mucous cocoon like the African lungfish.
Six - The state of Louisiana constructed ______ plants to process nutria for human consumption.
Snowshoe Hares - Canada Lynx feed principally on _______________
South Dakota - Once thought to be extinct, a population of Black-footed ferrets was found in
_______________ in 1964
South Dakota - The largest population of re-introduced black-footed ferrets (164 individuals) is in
____________
south of the Suwanee river - Scallops began to disappear in the region of the Gulf of Mexico
______________
Sparrow Hawks - Agriculturalists in Britain blamed the declines in some species on predation by
___________
Spermatophores - _______________ are structures produced by male salamanders for reproductive
purposes.
sponges - Intracellular digestion by amoebocytes is typical of _____________
sponges - The structurally simplest animals we discussed are the _________
Squirrel - 18. People in Kentucky developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease like symptoms after eating
_________ brains.
statewide - After the scallops declined, the state (through the MFC) banned commercial harvest of
scallops ______________
swordfish nursery areas - The US government recently closed more than 132,000 square miles of the
Atlantic to commercial swordfishing because these areas are __________________
Sylvatic Plague - Prarie dogs are especially vunerable to ______________
T
Tarpon Springs - Moulton was able to buy some dried seahorses at a market in _________________
Tarpon Springs - Today sponges are commercially harvested in Florida only out of _______________
Tennessee - Fishers (Martes pennati) have recently been re-introduced to the state of
__________________
The Florida Keys - The Schaus Swallowtail butterfly is found only in _______________
the Indian Ocean - A species of lobe finned fish still occurs in ________________
the Philippines - Many sea horses are harvested by fishers from ____________________
the US Senate - n 1997, the __________ decided to lift the ban on imports of Mexican tuna.
three - In 1999 petitoners listed ______ threats to the Black-tailed Prairie Dog
thrown overboard - Any swordfish that are caught that are not large enough by established standards
are ____________________
to establish a fur industry - Nutria were originally introduced ______________
True - At the 2002 CITES meeting, the US agreed with the motion to allow a one time sale of ivory
stockpiled in 5 African nations.
True - Before 1996, frog gigging for consumption by a person's family was legal in Big Cypress National
Preserve.
True - Black Skimmers benefited from gull control at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
True - Red tides are not always characterized by a change in the water color.
tuna - In 1990, the US banned imports of ________ from Mexico because of dolphin mortality.
Two - _____ species of kangaroo are only harvested on Flinders Island and Tasmania
two - There are actually _____ species of Patagonian Toothfish.
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urochordata - The ____________ are chordates that are sessile as adults and/but have a free-swimming
larva.
urochordata - The sea squirts belong to the subphylum __________________
USDA Wildlife Services - Wide scale poisoning of prairie dogs was undertaken between 1920 and 1970
by the agency now known as _________________
Utah - The _______ Prairie Dog is listed as endangered.
V
vertebrae - The fossil lineages of the amphibians are recognizable on the basis of the struction of the
____________.
Viva! - ________ is the animal rights advocacy group that led the campaign against the sale of kangaroo
meat in UK grocery stores.
viviparous - One problem with harvesting sharks commercially is that they are ____________.
W
Weasel - Fishers are members of the _______ family
Wyoming - in 1981, a population of Black-footed ferrets was found near Meeteese in _______________
Z
Zebra Mussel - The ___________ is an introduced species in North America that belongs to the phylum
Mollusca.
Zimbabwe - ___________ is one of the African nations that argued for lifting the ban on ivory trade.