Natural Resource Management Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Natural Resource Management explores the principles and practices involved in the sustainable use and conservation of natural resources such as soil, water, air, forests, and wildlife. The course examines the interconnections between human activities and the natural environment, addressing issues like resource depletion, habitat loss, and climate change. Students learn about ecological, social, and economic considerations in managing resources, policy frameworks, and community-based approaches. The course also covers assessment techniques, restoration strategies, and current challenges in balancing development with environmental stewardship.
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Essentials of Ecology 4th Edition by Michael Begon
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Chapter 1: Ecology and How to Do It
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Q1) In your experiment,you manipulate temperature to test if it has an effect on the abundance of an insect species.If your null hypothesis stated that temperature has no effect on insect abundance,and your p-value was equal to 0.80,then you would conclude what?
A) That there is an association between insect abundance and temperature
B) Your data show evidence to support the null hypothesis, and conclude that temperature has no effect on this insect species abundance.
C) That there is a relationship between temperature and insect abundance
D) That temperature has an effect but species abundance does not.
Answer: B
Q2) Who defined ecology as "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment?"
A) Ernst Haeckel
B) Charles Darwin
C) E.P. Odum
D) G.E. Likens
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Ecologys Evolutionary Backdrop
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Q1) Peppered moths (Biston betularia)vary in color from place to place.Is the variation within these populations heritable?
A) No, variation within this species is not heritable
B) Yes, the trait is the same in all populations which allows any moth to change from white to black at any given time
C) Yes, this trait is heritable and is selected for or against depending on the environment
D) No, variation is not heritable because reproduction does determine the color morph.
Answer: C
Q2) A male bullfrog (Rana catesbeianus)is found to mate with more females and produce more offspring than any other male in a pond being studied.What would you say about this bullfrog's fitness?
A) This males fitness is low compared to all other males in the pond
B) This males fitness is intermediate compared to other males in the pond
C) This males fitness is the highest of all other males sampled in the pond
D) This male must have the loudest vocalization and be most aggressive
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Physical Conditions and the Availability of Resources
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Q1) If a plant's fitness is largely influenced by how well leaves survive,then which of the following predictions regarding chemical defenses is correct?
A) Plants will likely invest the most costly constitutive chemicals in petals.
B) Plants will equally invest constitutive chemicals in the petals and leaves.
C) Plants will likely invest the most costly constitutive chemicals in leaves.
D) None of the above
Answer: C
Q2) A niche can be thought of as being:
A) The same thing as a habitat
B) A summary of what an organism can tolerate
C) A summary of what an organism requires
D) A modern concept, proposed by Hutchison in 1957
E) An n-dimensional hypervolume
Answer: B,C,D,E
Q3) Which of the following are examples of defense mechanisms?
A) The shell of a nut
B) The shell of a crab
C) Clover that release hydrogen cyanide when herbivores feed on them
D) Epidermal hairs on plants that keep thrips away from leaves
Answer: A,B,C,D
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Chapter 4: Climate and the Worlds Biomes
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Q1) Because of how sunlight hits the surface of Earth:
A) Heating by sunlight is greater at the North and South Poles
B) Heating by sunlight is greater at the Equator
C) Temperatures are cooler at the Equator
D) Water redistributes heat to temperate and polar regions
Q2) Charles Darwin visited much of South America during his voyage on the Beagle.When Darwin was in South America,did surface winds of the Polar,Hadley,and Ferrel cells flow in the same direction as his homeland?
A) Yes, because these cells all flow in the same direction regardless of global position
B) No, because these cells do not flow in the same direction
C) These cells flow in different directions due to the Coriolis effect
D) The Coriolis effect has no significance on these cells
Q3) If you were standing in the tropics,which direction would the prevailing winds blow?
A) From the north
B) From the south
C) From the east
D) From the west
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Chapter 5: Birth, Death and Movement
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Q1) A survivorship curve of Type I:
A) Shows risk of mortality is greatest at older ages
B) Is typical of humans
C) Shows number of surviving individuals is greatest at younger ages
D) Is not likely to occur in wild populations of animals and plants
Q2) What measurement gives an overall idea of whether a population has increased or decreased in a generation?
A) The summation of all offspring produced by the proportion of surviving individuals
B) Fecundity
C) The product of the proportion of surviving individuals and the proportion of those survivors that reproduce
D) The basic reproductive rate
Q3) Which organism completes its entire life cycle in a single year?
A) An annual
B) A biennial
C) A perennial
D) An iteroparous perennial
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Chapter 6: Interspecific Competition
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Q1) Some ant species from Africa were best at competing for space,but were worst at colonizing.This is an example of ________
A) Coexistence.
B) Interspecific competition.
C) Niche differentiation.
D) A trade-off.
Q2) You determine that two species of birds coexist in the same tree,but that they have different feeding behaviors that prevents them from competing with one another for resources.One bird species feeds on insects found in the bark of this tree,while the other bird species feeds on insects at the branch tips.One explanation of your observation could be that:
A) Coexistence is due to niche differentiation.
B) Coexistence is due to shared resource utilization.
C) Coexistence is not due to resource specialization.
D) None of the above.
Q3) Negatively associated distributions
A) Occur within a community.
B) There are no potential competitors without niche differentiation.
C) There are potential competitors without niche differentiation .
D) Competitors occur only where the other is absent.
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Chapter 7: Predation, Grazing and Disease
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Q1) A spider that spins a web to capture prey would be considered which of the following?
A) A foraging predator
B) A sit-and-wait predator
C) A grazer
D) A parasitoid
Q2) Which terms relate to a process whereby the outcome of ecological interactions between conspecifics shows the consumption rate per individual predator declines with increasing predator density?
A) Mutual interference
B) Transmission
C) Crowding
D) Predator-mediated coexistence
Q3) Select which of the following choices are correct.
A) Predator populations can be impacted by other predators
B) When predator numbers increase there is often a density dependent negative impact on the predator species
C) The lynx and hare population cycles are easily explained by Lotka Volterra models
D) Parasites rarely interfere with one another
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Chapter 8: Molecular and Evolutionary Ecology
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Q1) What term would be used to describe the process whereby nitrogen is converted into molecules that plants can use?
A) Nitrogenation
B) Nitrogen fixation
C) Nitrogen recovery
D) Nitrogen flux
Q2) What is a molecular marker?
A) It is a section of DNA sequence that can be used to characterize variation in nucleotide bases
B) It is DNA from the mitochondrion
C) It is a part of the genome that does not code for a protein
D) It is a section of DNA sequences that can be used to evaluate polymorphisms
Q3) What would it mean if you looked at a locus in a sequence of DNA and found a SNP that was bi-allelic?
A) It would mean that there are four genes for those two alleles.
B) It would mean that there are two nucleic variants at that locus.
C) It would mean that the organism has become a new species
D) All of the above
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Chapter 9: From Populations to Communities
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Q1) If all trophic levels are being controlled by the abundance of resources available to plants it would be called _____________.
A) Bottom up control.
B) Top down control
C) Trophic limitation
D) Producer limitation
Q2) Beavers build dams that create flooding that creates abundant aquatic habitat.They might be considered ______________?
A) Mesopredators
B) Megapredators
C) Keystone species
D) Top down controllers
Q3) Which of the following describe the process of community succession?
A) Dominant species losing out to those that are better colonizers.
B) Later colonizers can often tolerate lower resource levels.
C) Good dispersers typically win in the end.
D) Later colonizers are often more efficient competitors.
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Chapter 10: Patterns in Species Richness
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Q1) What term characterizes the equilibrium point for species richness of an island?
A) R
B) H
C) S*
D) N
Q2) Functionally predation can act on a community to increase diversity.This affect on communities is similar to what we have seen with intermediate _____________.
A) Competition
B) Parasitism
C) Resources
D) Disturbances
Q3) You are comparing species richness across 10 square meter plots over an entire region of Indiana.Your data show that individual communities are not diverse and that the communities in the region do not differ.Of the following choices,which is the best conclusion?
A) The beta diversity is extremely high
B) The alpha diversity is extremely high
C) You cannot conclude anything from these data
D) The gamma diversity is extremely low
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Chapter 11: The Flux of Energy and Matter Through Ecosystems
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Q1) Which of the following statements are correct regarding nitrogen fixation in subtropical ocean gyres?
A) Nitrogen fixation does occur in subtropical ocean gyres
B) Nitrogen fixation does NOT occur in subtropical ocean gyres
C) Sulfate reduces the rate of nitrogen fixation in subtropical ocean gyres
D) Phytoplankton in subtropical ocean gyres are small but highly abundant
Q2) Which community would you suspect receives high levels of radiation but does not convert much of that radiation to biomass?
A) Tropical rain forest in Costa Rica
B) Tropical rain forest in Ecuador
C) Death Valley desert in California, United States of America
D) A conifer forest in Alberta, Canada
Q3) What would be considered a high level of net photosynthetic efficiency for a naturally occurring ecosystem?
A) 30% efficiency
B) 10% efficiency
C) 3% efficiency
D) 0.01% efficiency
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Chapter 12: Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Alteration by Humans
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Q1) If you conducted a whole-ecosystem experiment and manipulated temperature,which of the following would you expect to happen?
A) Overall, NEP would affected
B) NPP would be affected
C) Overall, NEP would not be affected
D) Ecosystem respiration would be affected
Q2) Scientists say that that the global rate of terrestrial net ecosystem production (NEP)is approximately 56.4 Pg of carbon per year.However,there may be 30% or more uncertainty in these rates.What does that mean?
A) That the NEP is exactly 56.4 Pg of carbon per year and that it does not fluctuate
B) That the global NEP is inferred from data, and that there may be plus or minus 30% of 56.4 Pg of carbon per year
C) That the global NEP is absolute, and that it will likely be higher than 56.4 Pg of carbon per year
D) That the NEP is not reliable because there is 30% or more uncertainty. Therefore we should not trust the estimate.
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Chapter 13: Conservation Ecology
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Q1) Which of the following explains why conservation biologists would be particularly concerned about the effects of introduced species on an island?
A) Conservation biologists are not concerned with introduced species on islands
B) Because islands tend to have high amounts of endemism
C) Because island populations will always be genetically homogenized
D) Conservation biologists are concerned with intense intraspecific competition on islands
Q2) The term biodiversity can include?
A) Species richness
B) Genetic diversity
C) Community types
D) All of the above
Q3) Which of the following would be a method used by biologists to rescue small populations from the loss of genetic diversity?
A) Breeding with the last common ancestor
B) Cloning individuals
C) Controlled breeding in captivity and subsequent reintroduction
D) There is no way to rescue a small populations with lost genetic diversity
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Chapter 14: The Ecology of Human Population Growth, Disease,
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Q1) Ozone depletion is likely responsible for
A) An increase in human skin cancer
B) An increase in plant diseases
C) A decrease in global climate change
D) A decrease in amphibian populations
Q2) What is one reason why increased urbanization occurred?
A) Reproductive rates of rural residents
B) The invention of skyscrapers
C) Intensification of agriculture requiring fewer workers
D) Urbanization has not increased
Q3) The commonly proposed explanation for demographic transition is/are :
A) Industrialization
B) Education
C) Excess agricultural products
D) Medical advances
Q4) Growing organic crops _________ the environment because _________.
A) Benefits; it produces better food
B) Destroys; it produces more nitrogen in agricultural runoff
C) Benefits; it reduces the amount of nitrogen in agricultural runoff
D) Destroys; it reduces the amount of nitrogen in agricultural runoff
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