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What was the effect of Native Americans on wildlife populations prior to the arrival of Europeans? - Answer-Before Europeans, native americans would hunt wildlife and (mostly) use their whole carcass as a resource and they would also defend their agriculture from wildlife. They may have had a sign...

What is an animal's niche? - Answer-An animals role or job in an ecosystem How many dimensions can a niche have? - Answer-A niche can be simple and complex What is the Pleistocene overkill? - Answer-The argument that humans were responsible for the late pleistocene extinction of mega fauna. Wha...

he world, in the US - 5500, 965 Number of threatened/endangered mammal species - 1000 What separates mammals from birds, reptiles, and amphibians - Mammals have hair, mammary glands, and three ear bones. What distinguishes birds from mammals, reptiles, and amphibians - Feathers Number of specie...

Due to the disruption of natural water flow and loss of habitat, ____________ National Park was added to the World Heritage Danger List in 2010. - Answer-Everglades You can tell that the green snake is poisonous based on the shape of its... - Answer-head It is important that we continue to protec...

What is wildlife? - Answer-Wikipedia: "Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms." Merriam-Webster: "Living things and especially mammals, birds, and fishes that are neither human nor domesticated" Bolen and Robinson: "Wildlife is a hard term to define, but ...

What is an animal's niche? How many dimensions can a niche have? Can animals share a niche? - Answer-An animal's niche is the functional role of an organism considered in the environment in which it lives, its "job." A niche is multidimensional. No two organisms can occupy the same niche at th...

Before man 11,500 B.P. - Answer-giant animals, megafuana, land bridge between Alaska and Russia Pre-European Era - Answer-the clovis (hunter gatherers), overkill of megafuana, native americans (agriculture), columbus in 1492 Era of Abundance - Answer-Europeans show up to North America, abundance ...