Conservation in Geography Quiz

Question 1An illustrative habitat survey records 480 plants initially and 600 at the next count. Find the percentage increase, rounded to one decimal place.

Enter a number in %.

Answers within 0.05 % of the expected value are accepted.

Question 2Along a coast, restoration targets symptoms while upstream sediment loss continues. What limits the intervention?

The coast’s legal boundary prevents effects from upstream land useThe visible work makes evidence about causal processes redundantThe continuing cause is capable of undoing the local repair workThe restoration proves that the upstream process has reversed

Question 3A seed bank stores material from a threatened plant while its habitat is being repaired. What role does storage play?

An ex situ safeguard alongside work in the original habitatAn in situ population living in the original ecosystemA replacement that preserves the full set of wild ecological interactionsA guarantee that restoring the wild habitat is unnecessary

Question 4A woodland plan permits controlled harvesting while maintaining regeneration. Which approach does that describe?

Extraction judged by its immediate yield without regenerationConservation that combines resource use with continued renewalPreservation defined as preventing alteration of the woodlandRestoration defined as replacing the woodland with cropland

Question 5After a reserve boundary is declared, damaging extraction continues inside it. Which conclusion fits the evidence?

The boundary proves that ecological conditions have recoveredThe formal designation has not stopped the damaging activityThe activity outside the reserve is the sole relevant pressureThe reserve’s name measures the strength of its enforcement

Question 6Habitat area stays constant while pollution reduces breeding success. What distinction explains the decline?

A fixed area establishes a fixed number of surviving offspringHabitat amount differs from its suitability for the populationPollution counts as habitat improvement when boundaries stay fixedBreeding success measures area instead of population performance

Question 7Two habitat patches are separated by a road and intensively used land. What is the purpose of a suitable corridor?

Connect movement and exchange between the separated populationsConcentrate the entire population into the narrow connecting stripIncrease isolation so that the patches function independentlyReplace habitat quality with a line drawn on the planning map

Question 8One local group supports a reserve while another faces loss of access to resources. What should the project recognize?

The support of one group establishes consent by the whole communityA shared address gives residents identical economic dependenceDisagreement proves that the habitat has no conservation valueResidents differ in their dependence on the affected resources

Question 9A planting project reports how many seedlings were put into the ground. What evidence would better assess ecological recovery?

The mature habitat functions restored when seedlings enter the groundThe surviving seedling population fixed by the planting totalThe survival of planted organisms and recovery of habitat functionsThe ecological recovery equal to the percentage increase in spending

Question 10A conservation team has limited funding for several sites. What belongs in setting priorities?

Site size as the complete ranking regardless of habitat qualityVisibility to visitors as a substitute for ecological importanceEqual spending at each site without regard to the pressures presentEcological importance weighed against threats and achievable benefits

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