Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… WILDLIFE

1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… WILDLIFE

2. WILDLIFE

3. You live where: 200 • Question: • This thing provides everything wildlife needs to survive. • Answer • What is habitat? Back

4. You live where : 400 • Question: • Habitat must provide these 5 things for an organism to survive and thrive. • Answer • What is food, water, shelter/cover, space, and arrangement? Back

5. You live where : 600 • Question: • The breaking up of habitat into smaller units by human development. • Answer • What is habitat fragmentation? Back

6. You live where : 800 • Question: • This small, rare, and secretive creature makes its home in mossy wet areas where springs make deep mineral or organic mud “soups” • Answer • What is the Bog Burtle? Back

7. You live where : 1000 • Question: • I need two types of habitat to survive, ponds for breeding and moist earth for burrowing. You can usually find me near pine forests with sandy soil. • Answer • What is the Tiger Salamander? Back

8. Are you going to eat that?: 200 • Question: • I provide the energy that plants utilize to make their food and that animals get by eating the plants. • Answer • What is the Sun? Back

9. Are you going to eat that : 400 • Question: • I eat the dead plants and animals and the waste products of the living ones. • Answer • Who are decomposers? Back

10. Are you going to eat that : 600 • Question: • As a vulture my primary source of food is the body of dead animals also known as this. • Answer • What is carrion? Back

11. Are you going to eat that : 800 • Question: • As one of three giant salamanders in the world, my favorite foods are mollusks, snails fish eggs, worms, and insect larvae. • Answer • What is the Hellbender? Back

12. Are you going to eat that : 1000 • Question: • As an adult, I don’t eat anything. • Answer • What is the Mayfly? Back

13. Who am I: 200 • Question: • When I sing “Jug o’ rum! Jug o’ rum!” most people know who I am. • Answer • What is the male Bull Frog? Back

14. Who am I : 400 • Question: • I am the only native fox species in North Carolina, am slightly smaller than my relative, and have the ability to climb trees. • Answer • What is the Gray Fox? Back

15. Who am I : 600 • Question: • I was once near extinction but sound game management (and being very adaptable) have brought populations of my species back to approximately 1.25 million. • Answer • What is the White Tail Deer? Back

16. Who am I : 800 • Question: • Some people call me the whistle pig. And I get asked the same question over and over. • Answer • What is the Woodchuck? Back

17. Who am I : 1000 • Question: • John Smith, an English explorer, described me as having “the head of a pig, the tail of a rat, and the size of a cat with baggage under her belly.” • Answer • What is the Opossum? Back

18. Endangered Species: 200 • Question: • This legislation was passed in 1973 to help save species facing extinction. • Answer • What is the Endangered Species Act? Back

19. Endangered Species: 400 • Question: • Species become endangered by these causes. Name two. • Answer • Habitat destruction and fragmentation, environmental pollution, introduction of exotic species, and commercial exploitation Back

20. Endangered Species : 600 • Question: • The Bald Eagle was placed on the Endangered Species List as a result of this process. • Answer • What is biomagnification? Back

21. Endangered Species : 800 • Question: • This endangered species that was listed in 1985 has a larval stage called glochidea. • Answer • What is the Tar Spiny Mussel? Back

22. Endangered Species : 1000 • Question: • A federally listed species with the designation XN is this. • Answer • What is an experimental population? Back

23. That’s my job: 200 • Question: • My job is to be eaten by a carnivore. • Answer • What is prey? Back

24. That’s my job : 400 • Question: • My job is to remove pollutants, provide corridors, food, and shelter along bodies of water. • Answer • What is a riparian buffer? Back

25. That’s my job : 600 • Question: • My job is to create habitat for other species. • Answer • What is a keystone species? Back

26. That’s my job : 800 • Question: • My job is to help divide up needed resources by spacing out members of a species, limiting competition. • Answer • What is territoriality? Back

27. That’s my job : 1000 • Question: • My job is to help birds fly. In a hawk or an eagle I may be the same size as the corresponding body part of a human. • Answer • What is an eye? Back

28. Final Jeopardy • Question: • One of the important principles of wildlife management identified by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission is that the management of wildlife must include the management of this species. • Answer • What is man? Back

29. Daily Double

30. Daily Double