Question

1. The Bureau of Land Management manages over ________ acres of land in the United States. (Points: 7) A.) 260 million B.) 100 million C.) 875 million
2. The wild ______ was the main work animal of the mining industry. (Points: 7) A.) buffalo B.) mustang C.) burro

3. In the late 1950s, a woman named Velma B. Johnston, nicknamed ________, petitioned congress to stop the cruel treatment of the wild burros and horses. (Points: 7) A.) Little Orphan Annie B.) Wild Horse Annie C.) Annie Oakley

4. In the 1970s, horse thieves called _________ hunted many horses to be used for dog food or for illegal sale. (Points: 7) A.) Bandits B.) Varmints C.) Mustangers

5. Wild deer eat small shrubs, while wild elk eat mainly _______. (Points: 1)
A.) grasses B.) leaves C.) berries

6. ________ have always had the priority from national parks, but their desire to feed from dumpsters and campgrounds has caused many problems. (Points: 7) A.) Alligators B.) Moose C.) Bears

7. Yellowstone National Park recently introduced native _______ into the park after fifty years of removal. (Points: 1) A.) coyotes B.) wolves C.) cougars

8. As herds of horses and cattle come to drink from the riverbanks they cause _______ and pollute the water. (Points: 1) A.)precipitation B.)contamination C.)deforestation

9. The Department of Fish and Wildlife believes _____________ should be removed for a 5 year period to help rebuild the native wildlife. A.) deer and elk B.) wolves and bears C.) cattle and horses

10. ____________ agree that native wildlife should have the priority on federal land areas. (Points: 7) A.) Congressmen B.) Environmentalists C.) Cattle ranchers

Answer 1

Answer 1.  

(A) 260 million

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is a bureau within the United States Department of the Interior that manages larger than 247.3 million acres of public properties in the United States which aggregates one-eighth of the landmass of the country. The purpose of the BLM is "to maintain the well-being, diversity, and richness of the public properties for the performance and satisfaction of present and future ages.  

Answer 2.

(C) Burro

Burro is a tiny donkey, particularly one worked as a pack animal in the southwestern U.S. The donkey is a trained division of the horse race, Equidae. The wild relative of the donkey is the African eager burro. The donkey has been utilised as a labouring animal for at least 5000 years.  

Answer 3.

(B) Wild Horse Annie

Velma Bronn Johnston (often Johnson) was one of the opinions responsible for obtaining governmental jurisdiction over wild horses and burros on public property. The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act was approved into authority in 1971 after passing both Houses of Congress without a dissenting vote. The Bill originally built a command that the uncontrolled custom of “mustanging” was illegal and wild horses and burros would be handled humanely as “essential to the landscape” as “living representatives of the pioneer spirit of the West.”

Answer 4.  

(C) Mustangers  

Mustangers are commonly known as horse thief. The one who spins up wild horses on the public range and markets them particularly for horse meat. This is the reason Velma B. Johnson raised her voice against such acts, which according to her were inhuman.  

Answer 5.

(A) Grasses

As herbivores, elk only eats vegetables. In spring and summer when feed is rich, elk are mainly grazers. They originally eat grasses, sedges and a mixture of flowering plants. As summer shifts to fall, elk frequently become browsers, serving on sprouts and limbs of plants and trees. Through winter, elk resume to eat grasses when these are accessible and not coated by deep snow.

Answer 6.

(C) Bears  

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the genus Ursidae. They are labelled as caniforms or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight kinds of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in an extensive variance of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and somewhat in the Southern Hemisphere.

Answer 7.

(B) Wolves  

Yellowstone wolves are creating a tropical cascade of environmental variation, including accommodating to improve beaver communities and bring back aspen, and vegetables. Yellowstone wolves are creating a tropic cascade of environmental variation, including accommodating to improve beaver communities and bring back aspen, and vegetables. The amount of wolves in Yellowstone National Park has extended to improve amid a push to eliminate the grey wolves from federal security. New figures from the park explain that there were at least 104 wolves in 11 packs in Yellowstone, including nine breeding pairs, with 40 pups lasting till the end of the year.

Answer 8.

(A) Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any result of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that drops beneath gravity. The foremost forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, graupel and hail. Precipitation is one of the three principal methods (evaporation, condensation, and precipitation) that aggregate the hydrologic cycle, the constant transfer of water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface.

Answer 9.

(C) Cattle and horses

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, earlier acknowledged as the California Department of Fish and Game, is a welfare agency under the California Natural Resources Agency. The Department of Fish and Wildlife regulates and preserves the state's fish, wildlife, plant and natural environments.

Answer 10.

(B) Environmentalists

An environmentalist is a supporter of the purposes of the environmental evolution. It is considered to be a political and ethical progress that attempts to enhance and preserve the quality of the natural environment through modifications to environmentally destructive human movements.

Answer 2

1. A
2.C
3. B
4.C
5.A
6. C 
7. B
8. A
9. C
10. B