GAMBELLA UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCE,

WILDLIFE AND ECOTOURISM MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT

College Of Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

Model for Exit exam Question for Wildlife and Ecotourism Management

Instruction I. Choose the best answer from the given alternative and write
the answer in bold letter within the provided space (1 point each)

A. Biodiversity Conservation
1. Biodiversity is the variety of life in all its forms, it implies that
A. Biodiversity includes plants, invertebrate, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other
microorganisms,
B. Biodiversity includes biomes (bioregional), landscape, ecosystem, species,
population, individual and genes.
C. Biodiversity is variability among living organisms from all sorts of ecosystems
D. Biodiversity refers to the quality, range or extent of differences between
biological entities in a given set.
_____2. The measure of numerically dominated by one species or similar
numbers of individuals in particular ecosystem is known as
A) species domination C) Species evenness
B) Species richness D) Species domination

3. According to Typological species concept, the common definition of species is,

A. A population or group of populations that differs morphologically from other
populations.
 B. A group of organisms in which individuals are members of the species if they
sufficiently conform to certain fixed properties
C. A set of actually or potentially interbreeding populations.
D. None
Key Answer
1. A 2. C
B. Mammalogy

1.Which one of the following is Not the Characteristics of mammals?

A. Mammals have hair or fur and three middle ear bones.
B. Mammals have Sweat glands and Specialized teeth
C. Mammals have glands specialized to produce milk, known as
mammary glands and four-chambered heart
D. Mammal has a simpler brain than other animals.
2. What cause mammals to become endangered?
A. Habitat loss and disease infection
B. Environmental pollution and hunting
C. Competition for food or habitat among wild animals.
D. All
Key Answer
1.D 2. D

C. Human-Wildlife conflict Management (WEtM3045).

1. Which one of the following is not a certain measure of reducing the conflict
between human and wildlife?

A) Steps must be taken to enhance the safety of people and wildlife and to create
mutual benefits of coexistence
B) Creating more Protected Areas and buffer zones.
C) Local communities can also participate in devising measures to reduce this
conflict.
D) Expansion of agricultural activities
2. Which one of the following is the outcome of human-wildlife conflict?
A) Injury and loss of life of humans and wildlife
B) Increase in the forest area
C) Curiosity of wildlife animals that leads for the invasion to outside the forest
area.
D) Adequate rainfall

Key Answer
1.D 2. B

C. Zoo and Aquarium

1___________ is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in

which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept and displayed.
A. Zoo C. An aquarium
B. Enclosure D. All

2. Which one is not the role of zoo?

A. Educating people about animals
C. Re-introducing captive-bred animals to the wild
B. Conserving endangered species
D. All
Key Answer
1.A 2. D
E. Ornithology
1. Which One of the following is odd?
A. Bill C. Vertebrate
B. Feather D. laying Hard shell eggs
2. One of the following is the sign of the breeding season in birds?
A. Springs C. Bloom
B. Feather D. All
Key Answer
1.C 2. A

F. Ecotourism Planning & Management

1. ____________can be defined as the maximum number of people who can use a site
without an unacceptable alteration in the physical environment and without an
unacceptable decline in the quality of experience gained by visitors.
(a) Building Capacity (b) Environment capacity
(c) Techno- Capacity (d) Carrying Capacity

2. Which activities involve excursions to exotic, endangered or otherwise appealing

locations such caving, hiking, birds watching etc.
(a) Agritourism (b) Ecolodging (c) Eco-trek (d) Culture tourism

ANSWER KEY
1. ( D) Carrying Capacity
2. ( C) Eco- trek

D. Tour Guiding
1. Type of on-site guide working free of charge or volunteering may be called a called
as___________
(i) City Guide (ii) Private Guide (iii) Docent (iv) Specialized Guide

2. Visitors stay in the country for at least one night but less than one full year is
called as__________
(a) Naturalist (b) Explorer (c) Tourist (d) Excursionist

ANSWER KEY
I. (iii) Docent
Ii. (c) Tourist

E. Museum and Herbarium Management

1) All of the following are the true about of museum except one
 A. They dedicated to furthering the public understanding of science and scientific
achievements.

B. It builds high-quality collections without establishing and clear acquisition policies and
plans.

C. They devoted to sharing knowledge about the natural world in all its aspects.

D. To promoting a greater appreciation and knowledge of history

2) From the given alternative which one is not the function herbarium
A. as permanent record of flora of those regions even the natural topography
B. it provides a wealth of information on our natural heritage and extend back hundreds of
years
C. it used for correct and authentic identification of unknown plants,
D. It may not provide seeds of extinct plant species for further studies.

Answer key
1) B
2) D

F. Ecotourism Principle and Approach

1. So as to manage protected areas within acceptable ecological and sociocultural

carrying capacity, tourism planners must to monitor;
A. Leisure activities and behavior of tourists
B. Quality of visitor experience
C. Number of visitors
D. Understand expectation and motivation of visitors b/c of visitor use can
negatively affect visitors or tourism resources
D. All
E. None
2. When we say the local community has been economically empowered by an
ecotourism venture?
A. Equitable distribution of benefits which is obtained from ecotourism project
B. The benefits obtained from ecotourism goes to the federal government
C. Unfair sharing of economic benefits with the host community
D. The local community start to proud by their tradition and cultures
 E. All

Key Answer
1. E
2. A

G. Wildlife Ecology and Management

1. From the following alternatives, which one is the abiotic factor affecting on the

distribution, abundance, and diversity of wildlife?

A) Competition B) Diseases transmission C) water status D)

Predation

2. All of the following examples are negative value of wildlife except?

A) Physical utility B) Competition effect C) Human-animal conflict D)

Wildlife diseases to man

Key Answer
1. C
2. A