Which of the following could be classified as habituation?

A) You enter a room and hear a fan motor. After a period of time, you are no longer aware of the motorʹs noise.

B) You hear a horn while driving your car. You step on the brakes but notice the sound came from a side street. You resume your previous speed.

C) One morning you awake to a beep-beep-beep from a garbage truck working on a new early morning schedule. The next week the garbage truck arrives at the same time and makes the same noise, but does not wake you up.

#Question id: 11411

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Vulnerability to extinction can be linked to species following characteristics. Which of the following statement are correct?

 A. Rare species are more prone to extinction than common ones.

 B. Species that are capable of migrating between fragments of habitat, such as between mainland areas and islands, may be more resistant to extinction

 C. Organisms that are specialists are more likely to go extinct

 D. Species with naturally long life spans may be more likely to become extinct

#Question id: 11412

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

following is criteria to qualify Hot spot.

a) r-selected species

b) High numbers of endemic species

c) Many different types of habitats

d) k- selected species

#Question id: 11413

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Which of the following is NOT an attribute of a species that makes it vulnerable to extinction?

#Question id: 11414

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Which of the following combination of species feature that affecting a species’ sensitivity to extinction?

#Question id: 11415

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Below is a list of various bird groups, with their typical age at maturity (in years). Which of these would you expect to have the greatest annual survival?

#Question id: 12564

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution