Wildlife National Quiz Bee Questions 2015
National Wildlife Quiz Bee 2015
Easy Round
1. ______ is an ecological unit composed of a group of organisms occupying a particular area,
usually with each other and their environment. (community)
2. True or False. Camiguin Sur island located 10 km North Coast of Mindanao is part of the greater
Mindanao faunal region cities with Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Dinagat Island. (False)
3. All members of the Rafflesiaceae family are incapable of photosynthesis. True or False. (True)
4. ______ term is used to describe an organism that lives on/or another organism and benefits by
deriving nutrients at the host’s expense. (Parasitism)
5. By land, what is the smallest faunal region in the phils? (Greater Sulu/Greater Sulu Tawi-
Tawi/Sulu Tawi-Tawi)
6. What is the largest endemic ungulate in the phils? Give its English name. (Tamaraw/Mindoro
White Buffalo)
7. True or False. In the IUCN redlist category there are only 3 “threatened” categories: CR, EN and
NT. (False, NT – Vulnerable)
8. Term used when mating occurs between individual organisms that are genetically related
through common ancestry which often results in decreased vigor, size because of the combined
effect of harmful genes. (Inbreeding)
9. What is the Scientific name of the Phil Cockatoo? (Cacatua haematuropygia)
10. ______ is the natural process by which certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat that will
otherwise escape to space (Greenhouse Effect)
11. The hornbill is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found in 3 islands Mindanao, Camiguin sur,
and Dinagat. Give the English or scientific name. (Writhed hornbill, Mindanao writhed hornbill,
Mindanao wrinkled hornbill, Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus)
12. The ______ family is the largest family of the flowering plants of which the Philippines has
almost 1000 endemic species. Many of them have showy brightly colored and attractive flowers.
(orchids/orchidaceae)
13. Most Threatened species of wild pig in the Philippines. Give the English or scientific name.
(Visayan Warty pig/Sus cebifrons)
14. This bat is discovered in 2006 in Mt. Siburan and only the 2nd known species in the genus
characterized by three white stripes. (Mindoro striped-faced fruit bat/ Styloctenium
mindorensis)
15. The most threated hornbill in the world with an estimate of 27 mature individuals in the wild.
Give the English or Scientific Name. (sulu hornbill/ Anthracocerus montani)
Average Round
1. During the 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the environment in Vietnam last october 16, 2015,
the Philippines has gain its 8th ASEAN Heritage Park. (Mt. Timpoong Hibok-Hibok Natural
Monument). This is found in Camiguin.
2. What Phil. Province is found on the left of the Huxley’s line (modified Wallace line) (Palawan)
3. What is the IUCN conservation status of the Mindoro stripe – faced fruit bat? (Data Deficient)
4. The Mindanao bleeding heart pigeon is found in the island of Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Dinagat,
Mindanao and Basilan. What is the IUCN status of this bird? (Vulnerable)
5. The white – eared phil. Brown dove, Phapitreron leucotis found in western visayas now known
as Buff-eared brown dove, Phapitreron nigronum. What is the IUCN status of this bird? (Least
Concerned)
6. With 359,486 ha, the _______ is the largest protected Area in the phil. (northern sierra madre
natural park)
7. What is the former name of the biodiversity mgt. bureau BMB (Protected Areas and Wildlife
Bureau)
8. _________ is a form of biological resemblance in which a noxious or dangerous organism
equipped with a warning system such as a conspicuous coloration that is mimicked by a
harmless organism. (Batesian Mimicry)
9. Give one NIPAS area that is also a recognized UNESCO world heritage site. (Tubbataha Reefs
Natural Park, Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Mt. HAmiguitan Range
Wildlife Sanctuary)
10. How many species of hornbill are found between Mindoro, West Visayas and Mindanao Faunal
Regions? (6) Mindoro Hornbill, visayan hornbill, rufous-headed hornbill, Mindanao hornbill,
writhed hornbill, southern rufous hornbill
Difficult
1. ______ is the term used to define species of landbird with a global breeding range of less than
50,000 sq km (Restricted range or restricted range species)
2. There are a total of 10 species under 4 genera of hornbills found in the phils. 10 are endemic. In
what genus does the largest hornbill in the phils. belong? (Buceros)
3. Being parasitic, rafflesias are highly specific as to the host that they parasitize, preferring a few
species of vine under the genus _____ which is a member of the common grape family.
(Tetrastigma)
4. In Feb 2014 encountered a new species of pitcher plant named after botanist Julie Barcelona.
What is the scientific name? (Nepenthes barcelonae)
5. The sulawesi hornbill was put in the genus Rhabdotorrhinus, along with the rufous-headed
hornbill and writhed hornbill. With these change, the genus where the Sulawesi hornbill formery
belongs, becomes an endemic genus of the Philippines, where it is composed of 4 species. What
Philippine hornbill genus is this? (penelopides)
6. The ____ is a multisectoral and decision making body for each of the Protected Area established
under NIPAS (PAMB)
7. Giant and bushy tailed cloud rats are only 6 species, found only in the phil forest. Bushy tailed
clouds rats are classified in the genus Crateromys, where giant cloud are classified in the genus
_____ (Phloemys)
8. Discovered in 2014 in the lowland evergreen forest of Surigao del Norte, the Rafflesia ____ is the
most recent addition to the diverse list of Philippine rafflesia. Provide the species or scientific
name. (Rafflesia mixta)
9. How many of these 21 species of owl are endemic to the Philippines? (18)
10. Which of these is True for the Scietific name and IUCN conservation status of the calamian deer?
(Axis calamianensis, Endangered)
