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Wild Life and Conservation (1)
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Wild Life and Conservation-Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants animals and other organisms
-Living things and especially mammals, birds, and fishes that are neither human nor
domesticated - ANS-Widlife
-Gifford Pinchot
-Is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the
health of the natural world - ANS-Conservation
-Ernest Hackel
-Home Study
-The study of interactions between organisms and their environment - ANS-Ecology
-Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species - ANS-K,P,C,O,F,G,S
-Hair
-Mammary glands
-3 bones ears - ANS-What characteristics separate mammals from reptiles?
-Have prominent canines and sharp claws - ANS-Carnivora
Feathers - ANS-What feature is unique to birds (meaning no other animal has them)?
-About 5,500 (roughly 965 in North America)
-Bats (20%) and rodents (40%) account for more than Half of all mammal species in the world -
ANS-Mammals
-Over 50 percent of birds are in the Passeriformes (perching birds ordeR)
-Roughly 9,900 species - ANS-Birds
-Scales, backbone, produces eggs and is cold blooded
-Roughly 11,000 - ANS-Repitles
-Moist scaleless skin
-Roughly 8,100 species
- Most amount of endangered specie out of the 4 - ANS-Amphibians
Mammals
4498 - least concern
528 - threatened
489 - endangered
, 203 - critically endangered
Birds
9473- least concerned
799 - threatened
469 -endangered
224 -critically endangered
Reptiles
6141- least concern
517 - threatened
547 - endangered
303 - critically endangered
Amphibians
4580 -least Concern
644- threatened
944- endangered
575- critically endangered - ANS-Wildlife Endangerment statisitics
Biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all
the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such
as air, soil, water and sunlight - ANS-Ecosystem
drives photosynthesis - ANS-Light energy
The transformation of energy is not 100 percent efficient - ANS-Second law of thermodynamics
-Tertiary consumers
-Secondary consumers
-Primary Consumers
-Producers - ANS-trophic level
-Each level going up in the pyramid of energy loses energy( decreasing rate of energy flow)
-10 percent rule of thumb= about 10 percent of the energy used in one trophic level is available
to the next - ANS-Energy Loss
-Less amount of animals as you go up the pyramid
-Much more producers than secondary consumers - ANS-Pyramid of Numbers
-Eat decayed leaves (energy does not come from a producer)
-They help break down material later for producers - ANS-Detritivores
-Bacteria and other funguses
-Helping cause that decay - ANS-Decomposers
The living part of an ecosystem - ANS-Communities
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