1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… WILDLIFE

2. You live where? Are you going to eat that? Who am I?Endangered Species That’s my job. 200 400 600 800 1000 FINAL JEOPARDY

3. You live where: 200 Question: This thing provides everything wildlife needs to survive. Answer What is habitat?

4. 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?

5. You live where : 600 Question: The breaking up of habitat into smaller units by human development. Answer What is habitat fragmentation?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. Are you going to eat that : 1000 Question: As an adult, I don’t eat anything. Answer What is the Mayfly?

13. 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?

14. 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?

15. 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?

16. 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?

17. 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?

18. Endangered Species: 200 Question: This legislation was passed in 1973 to help save species facing extinction. Answer What is the Endangered Species Act?

19. 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

20. Endangered Species : 600 Question: The Bald Eagle was placed on the Endangered Species List as a result of this process. Answer What is biomagnification?

21. 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?

22. Endangered Species : 1000 Question: A federally listed species with the designation XN is this. Answer What is an experimental population?

23. That’s my job: 200 Question: My job is to be eaten by a carnivore. Answer What is prey?

24. 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?

25. That’s my job : 600 Question: My job is to create habitat for other species. Answer What is a keystone species?

26. 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?

27. 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?

28. 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?