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WILDLIFE

WILDLIFEYou live where?

Are you going to eat that?

Who am I? Endangered Species

That’s my job.

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FINAL JEOPARDY

You live where: 200

• Question:• This thing provides everything wildlife needs

to survive.• Answer• What is habitat?

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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?

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You live where : 600

• Question:• The breaking up of habitat into smaller units

by human development.• Answer• What is habitat fragmentation?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Are you going to eat that : 1000

• Question:• As an adult, I don’t eat anything.• Answer• What is the Mayfly?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Endangered Species: 200

• Question:• This legislation was passed in 1973 to help

save species facing extinction.• Answer• What is the Endangered Species Act?

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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

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Endangered Species : 600

• Question:• The Bald Eagle was placed on the Endangered

Species List as a result of this process.• Answer• What is biomagnification?

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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?

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Endangered Species : 1000

• Question:• A federally listed species with the designation

XN is this.• Answer• What is an experimental population?

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That’s my job: 200

• Question:• My job is to be eaten by a carnivore.• Answer• What is prey?

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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?

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That’s my job : 600

• Question:• My job is to create habitat for other species.• Answer• What is a keystone species?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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