Delaware Online Hunters Education Course

Effective October 30, 2009, the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife changed their guidelines for distance learning. Students are now required to spend a minimum amount of time on each course page before proceeding to the certification exam.

Click here to go to the latest version of the Today's Hunter in Delaware online course—the official hunter education course of the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife.

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The following course material is for reference only. Please go to the new course to complete your Delaware certification.

Chapter 9 Review Questions
1.	Wildlife conservation ensures that __________. hunting seasons established by Kublai Kahn will continue no animals are ever harvested natural resources can be drawn on despite unwise use renewable resources can replenish themselves indefinitely
2.	Wildlife preservation __________. allows for the consumptive use of natural resources is a Biblical rule for saving natural resources saves natural resources but with no consumptive use of them allows hunting of endangered species
3.	A habitat for wildlife must include __________. space, arrangement, food, cover, and water brush and rocks, predators, water, and space space, vegetation, food, and resting and breeding places cover, predators, large area, arrangement, and food
4.	The "carrying capacity" of a wildlife area is the .
5.	List four factors that can limit wildlife populations.
6.	Hunting is an effective wildlife conservation tool because __________. funding from hunting licenses helps many game and non-game species recover from dwindling populations hunters play an important role by supplying wildlife managers with needed information from the field hunting contributes to threatened or endangered wildlife both a. and b.
7.	By continuously monitoring the birth rate and death rate of various species and the condition of their habitat, wildlife managers __________. know how to set hunting regulations and determine if other management practices are needed to conserve wildlife species know when to ignore hunting regulations they set earlier can obtain data to eliminate wildlife species both b. and c.
8.	It is critical that hunters are able to identify wildlife correctly so that they don't mistakenly __________. harvest illegal game animals or non-game animals confuse horns with antlers confuse cloven hooves with cud chewers confuse meat-eating animals with those that eat meat as well as plants
9.	Some species are protected by law from being hunted because __________. they are predators for a pest species they are migrating their death rate is high their numbers are small

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Chapter 9 Review Questions