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1

Setting aside nature preserves
A)has a long history, going back thousands of years.
B)first occurred in Europe two centuries ago.
C)was first done by President George Washington to atone for certain youthful misdeeds.
D)first happened in the American west at the time of the Civil War.
2

Purposes of parks include
A)providing sanctuary for wildlife.
B)for recreation.
C)for aesthetic reasons.
D)all of the above.
3

Problems besetting national parks include
A)lack of adequate funding.
B)overcrowding.
C)negative impact of developments on park boundaries.
D)all of the above.
4

Environmental threats to parks include
A)oil and gas drilling.
B)air pollution.
C)water contamination form mine drainage.
D)all of the above.
5

The program to reintroduce wolves into Yellowstone National Park is
A)sought to re-establish natural predator controls on grazing animals within the park.
B)strongly opposed by neighboring ranching interests.
C)supported to produce a more natural ecosystem in the park.
D)characterized by all of the above.
6

Wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone was followed by
A)a sharp decrease in biodiversity.
B)lawsuits designed to reverse the policy.
C)a sharp drop in wolf numbers due to the animal's inability to adjust to the new circumstances.
D)all of the above.
7

Establishment of new national parks is
A)universally acclaimed as fulfilling an important national need.
B)sometimes strongly opposed by local people.
C)embraced, surprisingly, by mining interests.
D)characterized by all of the above.
8

Setting land aside as nature preserves is happening
A)only in the U.S.
B)only in North America.
C)in a wide variety of countries.
D)mostly in Europe.
9

Ecosystem types NOT well represented among parks and preserves include
A)tundra.
B)humid tropical forests.
C)aquatic systems.
D)deserts.
10

The ecological plan of action of the IUCN includes
A)bringing higher attention to the issue of biological resources.
B)creating incentives to make species protection economically competitive with other land uses.
C)enhancing scientific skills among managers of biodiversity programs.
D)all of the above.
11

Wilderness is defined in the Wilderness Act as
A)any area containing plant cover not being actively used.
B)an area of undeveloped land having outstanding opportunities for solitude and primitive recreation.
C)any natural area possessing exceptional scenic beauty.
D)forest lands not used for commercial production of wood products.
12

An argument for preserving wilderness areas is that they provide
A)refuges for endangered wildlife.
B)places for natural systems to operate unhindered by human actions.
C)places to conduct baseline ecological research.
D)all of the above.
13

Landscape ecology is concerned with
A)how landscapes and ecological processes affect each other.
B)ecosystems unaffected by humans.
C)the fact that ecosystems are typically isolated systems.
D)all of the above.
14

Restoration, as the term is used by restoration ecologists, specifically refers to
A)use of physical manipulations to produce landscape contours comparable to ones originally present.
B)removal of pollutants from an area to protect human health.
C)active manipulation to bring a degraded ecosystem back to its original state.
D)returning an area to a condition in which it can sustain human use.
15

The principles of Ecosystem Management include
A)managing large units such as watersheds as single entities.
B)maintaining essential ecosystem processes.
C)involving both science and management.
D)all of the above.
16

An important park management question is whether the role of parks should be primarily to entertain visitors or to protect habitat and species diversity.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
17

Lack of natural predators in some parks is causing excessive population increases of elk and buffalo which then can damage the environment.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
18

Current uses incompatible with wildlife management goals include oil drilling and cattle grazing.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
19

A strong consensus has emerged that preserving numerous small areas is ecologically preferable to preserving fewer, larger areas.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
20

Nature preserves too small to sustain viable populations can be made viable by connecting them with corridors.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
21

The Wilderness Act defines a wilderness as any undeveloped area of large size.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
22

Activities allowed on many of our national wildlife refuges are actually harmful to wildlife.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
23

A significant dilemma facing restoration ecologists is deciding the earlier condition to which a site should be restored.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
24

Protecting ecosystems requires understanding ecology on a landscape scale.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
25

Ecotourism can work to give local communities the incentive to protect biodiversity.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE





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