2016 WILDLIFE REVIEWER

It refers to area of marsh, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or
flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including area of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six (6) meters or a land
where saturation of water is the dominant factor which determines the nature of soil development and the type of plant and animal
communities living in the soil and its surface.
Answer: Wetland

The study of wetland

Answer: paludology

What are the functions of wetland?

to conserve and provide water, constituting economic, scientific, cultural and recreational value for the community. They play a vital
role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Their other functions are: as water purification systems, to regulate water flow and
precipitation, and act as flood control system, provide shoreline stability and serve as reservoirs of biodiversity

What are the examples of natural wetland?

Answer: swamps, marshes, lakes and rivers, deltas, oases, estuaries, peatlands, mangroves and coral reefs

What are the examples of artificial wetland?

Answer: fish ponds, rice paddies, dams or reservoirs, and salt pans

Type of wetland with thick water-logged organic soil layer made of dead and decaying plant material. These are carbon-rich
ecosystems, containing twice as mud carbon stock as entire forest biomass of the world and when disturbed can become significant
sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Answer: peatland

Type of wetland which occurs along coastlines and are influenced by tides and often by freshwater from runoff, rivers, or ground
water.
Answer: Tidal (coastal) marsh

These are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers.
Answer: mudflats

The World Wetland Day is celebrated on____________.

Answer: February 2
April 22 - International Earth Day
March 22 – World Water Day
September 16 - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer or World’s Ozone Layer Day
October - Tamaraw Month; World Wildlife Month
November - Wildlife Month in Negros Occidental
End of March - observance of Earth Hour
March 21 - International Day of Forests
March 3 - International World Wildlife Day
May 22 - International Biodiversity Day
October 5 - World Habitat Day

The convention on Wetlands of International Importance, called the _______________, is the intergovernmental treaty that
provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their sources.
Answer: Ramsar Convention

The Wetlands of International Importance are also known as ____________________.

Answer: Ramsar Sites

The Convention on Wetlands was signed in 1971 in ___________.

Answer: Ramsar, Iran

What are the seven sites in the Philippines declared as Wetlands of International Importance?
Answer: Agusan Marsh Wildlife Santuary in Mindanao, Naujan Lake National Park in Oriental Mindoro, Olango Island Wildlife
Sanctuary in Cebu, Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park in Palawan, and the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Sulu
Sea and Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA); Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation
Area

Type of wetland which is fed primarily by surface water inputs and are dominated by trees and shrubs and is characterized by very
wet soils during the growing season and standing water during certain times of the year.
Answer: Swamp
It is recently declared as the 7th Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Site) of the Philippines.
Answer: Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA) - NOCWCA has a continuous coastline of 109.52
kilometers covering 52 coastal barangays in 10 local government units, including the cities of Bago, Himamaylan, Kabankalan, and
towns of Pulupandan, Valladolid, San Enrique, Pontevedra, Hinigaran, Binalbagan and Ilog; total land area: 230,000 hectares

Name the globally threatened marine turtles that can be found in Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area?
Answer: Critically endangered Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), endangered Green turtle (Cheloria mydas) and the
vulnerable Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)

What is the name of the dolphin that inhabits the Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area?
Answer: Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) – V

What are the other species that inhabit the Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area?
Answer: the globally endangered great knot (Calidris tenuirostris) E, far eastern curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) E, spotted
greenshank (Tringa guttifer) E, the Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) V which is endemic to the Philippines, Chinese egret (Egretta
eulophotes) V and Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora) V.

What are the species of shellfish that can be found in the Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area?
Answer: oysters, green mussels (Perna viridis), nylon shell (Paphia undulata), angel wing shell (Pholas orientalis), shrimps and crabs.

How many species of waterbirds were recorded in the NOCWCA in 2014?

Answer: 72

Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA) was declared the 7th Ramsar site based on Ramsar no.
_____________.
Answer: 2271

When was the NOCWCA inaugurated?

Answer: October 20, 2016

What is the most popular wetland in the country when it comes to migratory birds?
Answer: Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

In what countries do the migratory birds in the Philippines come from?

Answer: China, Australia, Siberia and Northern Japan

This endangered migratory shorebird was recorded to be found only in Tibsoc wetland in San Enrique and Pontevedra towns since
2012. Give its English name.
Answer: Greenshank

Birds that walk along the coastline on sandy beach or river estuaries are known as __________.
Answer: Shorebirds

The wetland in the Philippines that host the most number of shorebirds is the _____________.
Answer: NOCWCA

It is the Philippines' first wetland of international importance for waterfowl.

Answer: Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

What do you call the place or set of environmental conditions where a particular organism lives?
Answer: Habitat

__________is a type of ecological relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the
other.
Answer: Parasitism

__________is the state of the air and temperature at a particular place: the temperature and other outside conditions (such as rain,
cloudiness, etc.) at a particular time and place.
Answer: Weather

What is the term used for plant fungus or microorganisms that parasitize fungi and live on dead or decomposing matter?
Answer: Saprophyte

Organisms that produce their own food are known as producers or ______________.
Answer: autotrophs

Organisms that cannot make their own food are known as consumers or ___________.
Answer: heterotrophs
It is an international agreement among the 37 industrialized countries and the European community to reduce the emission of
greenhouse gases.
Answer: Kyoto Protocol
Montreal Protocol - an international negotiation which aims to the phasing out of CFC production

The process by which a body of water becomes rich in dissolved nutrients from fertilizers or sewage, thereby encouraging the
growth and decomposition of oxygen-depleting plant life and resulting in harm to other organisms.
Answer: Eutrophication

Oxygen makes up how many percent of the Air?

Answer: 21%

What is the R.A. of NIPAS Act of 1992?

Answer: R.A. 7586
RA 9512 - Declaration of Wildlife Month/National Environmental Awareness & Education Act of 2008
RA 9072 (National Caves and Cave Resources Management and Protection Act)
RA 9147 (Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001 or Philippine Wildlife Act)
RA 7942 (The Philippine Mining Act of 1995)
RA 8550 (The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998) R.A. 10586
RA 8371 (The Indigenous People’s Right Act of 1997)
PD 1586 (The Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System - EIA)
RA 9275 (Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004)
RA 8749 (Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999)
RA 9003(Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000)
RA 6969 (Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990)
R.A. 9729 (Climate Change Act of 2009)
P.D. 1152 (Philippine Environment Code)
RA 3915 (National Park Law)
P.D. 705 or Forestry Law

This act provides that the state shall promote national awareness on the role of natural resources in economic growth and the
importance of environmental conservation and ecological balance toward sustained national development.
Answer: National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

Give the R.A. of the law that declares November as the “Environmental Awareness Month”.
Answer: R.A. 9512

It refers to any distinct change in measures of climate lasting for a long period of time.
Answer: Climate Change

Give 5 examples of greenhouse gases

Answer: carbon dioxide (CO2). Nitrous oxide (N2O), hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), petrofluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride
(SF6)

In the Paris agreement of the climate change, the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, each country should have how
much percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030?
Answer: 70

_____ is the largest international diplomatic conference on climate ever organized by France in 2015.
Answer: 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21)

An act mainstreaming climate change into government policy formulations, establishing the framework strategy and program on
climate change, creating for this purpose the climate change commission, and for other purposes.
Answer: R.A. 9729 - Climate Change Act of 2009

179 countries and the EU spent two weeks in Paris last December 2015 hammering out the final wording of an agreement to keep
global temperature increase well below how many degrees?
Answer: 2°C

___________total amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted into the atmosphere each year by a person, family, building,
organization, or company.
Answer: Carbon footprint

R.A. 9147 is also known as _________________________.

Answer: Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001

An area of land where surface water from rain converges to a single point at a lower elevation usually to the exit of the basin where
the water joins?
Answer: watershed
________a symbiotic relationship combination of algae and fungi that is in its vegetative biology acts as a photosynthetic organism.
Answer: Lichen

______are burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona that is associated with wet tropical climates.
Answer: Caecilian

____________refers to species whose activity are crucial for the maintenance of the ecosystem integrity.
Answer: Keystone species

___________a non-taxonomic grouping of organisms based on shared behavioral dependencies and/or ecologically influential
biological population.
Answer: Guild

What term refers to the complex web linking air, water, animals, plants and every other life form in the biosphere?
Answer: Ecosystem

Illegal cutting of trees are prohibited under the Revised Forestry Code or Presidential Decree No.________.
Answer: 705

Who is the present director of the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB)?

Answer: Theresa Mundita Lim

It refers to the process by which the absorption of infrared radiation by the atmosphere warms the Earth.
Answer: Greenhouse effect

In the context of climate change, it refers to human intervention to address anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by
sinks of all GHG, including ozone- depleting substances and their substitutes.
Answer: Mitigation

Where can we find the first Golden Crowned Flying Fox roost sanctuary that is officially established in the Philippines?
Answer: Mambukal Resort Bat Sanctuary

How many endangered species of bats can be found in Mambukal resort?

Answer: 1 (Golden Crowned Flying Fox)

Who is the current DENR-NIR Director?

Answer: Al Orolfo

Who is the current secretary of DENR?

Answer: Regina Lopez

Name the two places in the Philippines where the Visayan warty pig was previously reported but is now extinct.
Answer: Cebu and Guimaras

How many species of bleeding-heart pigeon are there in the Philippines which are critically endangered?
Answer: 3 (Sulu bleeding-heart pigeon, Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon and Negros bleeding-heart pigeon - CR); Luzon bleeding-
heart pigeon (NT) and Mindanao bleeding-heart pigeon (V)

The strangest-looking bat that is endemic in the island of Sibuyan, Negros and Cebu rainforests?
Answer: Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene rabori) - E

What is the world’s tiniest shell?

Answer: Pisidium

Irrawaddy dolphin is only recorded in Guimaras, Bago City, Pulupundan and _________ in Palawan.
Answer: Malampaya Sound (first sighting)

This bird is oftentimes mistaken by locals as “aswang” bird.

Answer: Rufous-night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)

It is otherwise known as “100 pace snake” in reference to the legend: once bitten, a person walks a 100 pace and drop dead.
Answer: Philippine Pit Viper (Tremeresurus flavumaculatus) - DD

What is the only species of monkey found in the Philippines?

Answer: Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) - LC

What is the smallest hornbill in the Philippines?

Answer: Visayan tarictic hornbill (Penelopides panini) - E
What is the largest kingfisher in the Philippines?
Answer: Spotted wood kingfisher (Actinoides lindsayi) - LC

The World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on ____________.

Answer: May 10

It refers to the periodic departure and return of an organism.

Answer: migration

It refers to similar individuals that are alike in their structural and functional characteristics and breed only with each other.
Answer: species

Who is the Father of Taxonomy?

Answer: Carolus Linnaeus

It refers to the heaviest flying fox in the Philippines.

Answer: Golden-crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus) - E

What is the meaning of IUCN?

Answer: International Union for Conservation of Nature

It is known as the world’s epicenter of marine life abundance and diversity.

Answer: Coral Triangle

When was the Philippine bare-backed fruit bat rediscovered in Cebu? in Negros?
Answer: 2001; 2003

IBA stands for:

Answer: Important Bird Areas

What species is used as the logo of Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. (PRRCI)?
Answer: Sea Turtle

What is the largest frog in the country?

Answer: (Palawan) Philippine flat-headed frog (Barbourula busuangensis) - V

What is the other name for Visayan Writhed hornbill?

Answer: Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) CR

What is the rarest and most expensive seashell in the Philippines?

Answer: Conus gloriamaris or Glory of the Sea

These birds are considered as the neotropical counterparts of hummingbirds?

Answer: Sunbirds

What is the collective term used to non-living chemical and physical ecological factors or components e.g. temperature, light, soil,
etc. that affect the ecosystem? (Biotic - living component of ecosystem)
Answer: Abiotic

It comprises an area which assures the natural conditions necessary to protect naturally significant species, groups of species or
physical features of the environment.
Answer: Wildlife Sanctuary

What is the third Rafflesia species documented to exist in the Philippines and is endemic in Panay and Negros?
Answer: Rafflesia speciosa

What is the largest layer of tropical rainforest that contains the majority of large trees?
Answer: canopy layer
Layers of Tropical Rainforest: Emergent layer, Canopy Layer, Understory layer, Forest Floor

What is the scientific name of red lauan and white lauan?

Answer: Shorea negrosensis (RL); Shorea contorta (WL)

What is the IUCN status of red lauan and white lauan?

Answer: Vulnerable

What are largest and smallest bats in the Philippines?

Answer: Largest - Large flying fox
Smallest - Philippine bamboo bat
What are the two Southeast Asia’s Most Treasured Parks in the Philippines?
Answer: Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Palawan and Hamiguitan Range in Davao Oriental

What is the total number of ASEAN Heritage Parks in the Philippines?

Answer: 8
 Mt Apo Natural Park (Davao Oriental)
 Mt Kitanglad Range Natural Park (Bukidnon)
 Mt Malindang Range Natural Park (Misamis Occidental)
 Mt Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary (Davao Oriental)
 Mts Iglit-Baco National Park in Occidental Mindoro
 Mt Makiling Forest Reserve in Laguna
 Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Palawan
 Mt Timpoong-Hibok-Hibok Natural Monument (Camiguin)

What is the recent up to date scientific name of the Rufous-headed hornbill/Visayan writhed hornbill?
Answer: Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni - CR

What do you call the permit issued by the DENR to any individual or entity who wants to engage in non-commercial scientific or
educational undertaking to collect and or survey wildlife and its derivatives?
Answer: Gratuitous permit

The Visayan spotted deer now only exists in Negros and Panay and is extinct on Guimaras, Cebu and ___________.
Answer: Masbate

This is one of the genera of trees in lowland forest ecosystems with over 1200 species of animal depending on its fruit. It is
characterized by unique pollination system by having a specific predator pollinator called wasps.
Answer: Ficus

Xanthostemon verdugonianus yields the hardest of the Philippine timber. Give the local name of this tree?
Answer: Mangkono V

What are the oldest known land vertebrates and accordingly have been ideal subjects to study evolution?
Answer: amphibians

This is the only endemic water bird in the Philippines. Give its English name.
Answer: Philippine duck or Philippine mallard

This mountain located in Davao Oriental is one of the 26 new UNESCO World Heritage Site for 2014. What is the name of this
mountain?
Answer: Mt. Hamiguitan; others Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park and the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

This place is considered by many as the last frontier of Philippine biodiversity.

Answer: Palawan

The resemblance of sunbirds to hummingbirds is due to________________.

Answer: convergent evolution

Harlequin flying frog is a colorful frog which has extensive webbing between its fingers and toes that allows it to climb from branch
or across the forest canopy. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Rhacophorus pardalis - LC

It is considered as the largest remaining cover in Negros Island.

Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park

This species of sunbird is endemic in the island of Negros, Panay and Guimaras.
Answer: Maroon-naped sunbird (Aethopyga guimarasensis) - NT

What natural park is featured in P 1000 peso bill?

Answer: Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
P500.00 - Subterranean River National Park; Blue-naped parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis)
P1000 - Tubbataha Reef Natural Park; South Sea Pearl (Pinctada maxima)
P200 - Bohol Chocolate Hills; Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)
P100 - Mayon Volcano; Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus)
P 50 – Taal Vocano; Maliputo (Caranx ignobilis)
P20 – Banaue Rice Terraces; Palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus philippinensis)

How many species of hornbill are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 10
These species of birds are known as the world counterpart of toucans in America?
Answer: Hornbill

155. This endemic species which is also locally called "bantol" in Cebu is restricted to a few islands in the Philippines. This reptile can
go unnoticed in forest understory as it easily blends with the surroundings.
Answer: Negros forest dragon (Gonocephalus sophiae) - DD

What is the other name of Visayan Flowerpecker?

Answer: Black-belted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum haematostictum) - V

What species of brown dove is endemic to Negros and Panay?

Answer: Grey-breasted brown dove (Phapitreron maculipectus) - NT

This bird species is locally known as "pokpok" because of the monotonous call it makes repeatedly. The sound is like that of a
coppersmith striking metal with a hammer hence the name of the bird.
Answer: Coppersmith Barbet

How many species of hornbill are there in the Negros-Panay faunal region?
Answer: 2 - Visayan tarictic hornbill (Penelopides panini panini) – E and Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) -CR

What is the IUCN status of Rufous-headed hornbill and Visayan tarictic hornbill?
Answer: RHH - Critically endangered
VTH - Endangered

True or False: Negros bleeding-heart pigeon is endemic only in Negros?

Answer: False; it can also be found in Panay

Flame-templed Babbler is endemic to the islands of Negros and Panay. What is its scientific name and IUCN status?
Answer: Dasycrotapha speciosa; Endangered

What is the host plant of Rafflesia speciosa?

Answer: Tetrastigma spp.

What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Negros shrew?

Answer: Crocidura negrina; E

The largest endemic mammal of the West Visayas Faunal Region?

Answer: Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi) - E

Which of the following animals are warm-blooded (homeotherm/endotherm)?

a. birds b. fishes c. reptiles d. amphibians

It refers to relief features on the walls, ceilings and floor of any cave or lava tube which are part of the surrounding bedrock,
including but not limited to anastomoses, scallops, meander niches, petromorphs and rock pendants in solution caves and similar
features unique to volcanic caves.
Answer: Speleogem

__________is referred as an ancient continent that included all major continental land mass in the Permian and Triassic that split
into Laurasia and Gondwana.
Answer: Pangea or Pangaea/ Panthalassa (ocean mass)

The largest groups of species of bats with wingspan as wide as a meter are called___________. These are the same group of bats
found in Mambukal Resort in Murcia.
Answer: Flying Foxes

What is the collective term used when referring to reptiles and amphibians?
Answer: Herpetofauna or herps

What is the most threatened species of hornbill in Western Visayas region?

Answer: Visayas Writhed Hornbill/ Rufous-headed hornbill

What is the scientific name of Negros Cave Frog?

Answer: Platymantis spelaeus – E; other species: Platymantis hazelae – E; Platymantis negrosensis – E; Platymantis visayanus - V

Iron Wood produces the hardest wood in the country. One of the iron wood species is locally called “mangkono” What is its scientific
name?
Answer: Xanthostemon verdugonianus - V

This is an agricultural technique of clearing land by slashing and burning trees and plowing the ashes under for fertilizer. This is one
of the greatest threats of deforestation. Give the term of this farming practice?
Answer: kaingin

__________are non-flowering or seed-bearing plants that have ovules borne on scales that are usually arranged in cone-like
structures. (angiosperms - flowering plants)
Answer: gymnosperms

There are three orders under class Amphibia. Anura, Caudata and Gymnophiona. Of these 3 orders, which does not exist in the
Philippines?
Answer: Caudata (salamanders)

Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park was declared a National Park by Presidential Proclamation No. 721 on August 8, 1934 and revised by
Proclamation No. _______on May 8, 1997.
Answer: No.1005

What are the two mountain peaks in Northern Negros Natural Park?
Answer: Mt. Silay and Mt. Mandalagan

Mt Talinis-Twin Lakes Forest Reserve (MTTLFR) is located at the southeastern mountain ranges of Negros Island with the highest
point of 1,800 meters above sea level. It is otherwise known as:
Answer: Cuernos de Negros Range

The type of forest that can be found along the mountains in about 1200 m altitude high. Most of the mountainous areas have moist
climate in which mossy forest mostly developed.
Answer: Mossy Forest
1. Dipterocarp forest - covers the largest forest areas in the Philippines. It is situated from the coastal flats going up to
approximately 800 meters in the altitude. The dipterocarp forest is the biggest source of lumber supply in the country.
2. Fine forest - usually developed in the country’s high plateau regions. This is in the altitude ranging from seven to eight meters
above the sea level.
3. Mangrove forest - has trees that have special root formations. The fruits and the seeds of the mangrove trees can survive; can
germinate and can float in the seawater. This type of forest is tidal and it can be found along the clayed seashore as well as in the
tidal zones in the river estuaries.
4. Beach forest can be found along the beach; this kind of forest forms a narrow strip along the sandy coast of the beach.

The species of birds that are relatively found in the relative island.
a. endemic b. threatened c. near endemic d. extinct

Which of the following plant is listed as coniferous or cone-bearing species?

a. almaciga b. mahogany c. narra d. white lauan

Which of the following is NOT an amphibian?

a. skink (reptile) b. newts c. caecillian d. frog

235. It refers to a variety of living organisms considered at all level of organization, including genetic species as well as other
processes involving on it.
Answer: biodiversity

Site where humans are restricted or prohibited and where conservation of biodiversity as the primary goal.
Answer: Protected Areas

The strip of managed land or sea adjacent to or around protected areas and serves as additional layer of protection for native
wildlife.
Answer: buffer zone

The SE country that has the most Marine Protected Area.

Answer: Philippines

An alternative form of tourism which is encouraged in protected areas and ecologically sensitive areas.
Answer: Eco-tourism

This frog species is one of the two-cave dwelling species of platymanthis in the Philippines. All specimens of these species were
collected from two caves in Negros Island.
Answer: Negros Cave Frog

A non-native species that spreads rapidly and out-competed preys on and otherwise eliminates population of native species.
Answer: invasive species

The critically endangered fruit dove is only known from the female, from which mountain was the specimen collected.
Answer: Mt. Kanlaon
True or False: A species is considered extinct when there are no members of the species or family in existence.
Answer: True

The national agency designated as the CITES Management Authority for terrestrial wildlife in the Philippines.
Answer: PAWB (Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau); Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB)
For aquatic wildlife except for dugong and turtle - BFAR

The IUCN identifies three categories that are described as “threatened” except:
a. near threatened b. critically endangered c. endangered d. vulnerable

This endemic species was feared to have become extinct in the 1970s and due to severe habitat destruction and overwhelming.
However, this was captured in 2001 in Cebu and was found in 2003 in Negros Island.
Answer: Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani) - CR

Of the 117 important bird areas identified by the Birdlife International in 2001, 5 were found in the island of Negros. Which of the
following is not included in the Negros IBA?
a. NNNP b. Mt. Kanlaon c. Banban d. Ayungon
(Negros IBA – Mt. Talinis (Cuernnos de Negros), Northern Negros Natural Park, Mount Kanlaon Natural Park, Ban-ban and
Southwestern Negros)

Butanding, the largest fish in the world is a_________________.

a. mammal b. shark c. seal d. dolphin

Plant eaters are known as _______

Answer: herbivores

What is the only mammal that can fly?

Answer: bat

True or False. Sea grasses are the flowering plants in the sea.
Answer: True; Sea grasses are plants and not algae

260. Fruit-eating animals are known as:

Answer: frugivores
Sanguivore – blood drinking; Insectivore – insect-eating; Granivore – seed-eating; Piscivore – fish-eating; Nectarivore – nectar-
drinking

____________ is defined as the weather condition prevailing in an area over a long period of time.
Answer: climate

Which of the following bats are not present in Mambucal resort?

a. Golden crown flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) b. Island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus)
c. Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) d. Mottled Wing flying fox (Pteropus leucoptess)

True or False: Coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea. Corals are plants submerged in water and serve as habitat for marine
animals.
Answer: False

True or False: Philippine has only one species of cat.

Answer: True

78% of earth’s atmosphere is composed of ____________.

Answer: Nitrogen (21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, 0.03 percent carbon dioxide, and the remaining 0.07 percent is a mixture
of hydrogen, water, ozone, neon, helium, krypton, xenon, and other trace components.

The navigation and foraging of dolphin is governed by_____________

Answer: echolocation

The largest naturally occurring CO2-storage or carbon sink.

Answer: rainforest

The legislation that recognizes the importance of IBA.

Answer: RA 9147 (Philippine Wildlife act or Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act)

The group of plants producing naked seeds in cones.

Answer: gymnosperms

The white-appearance of corals is known as__________.

Answer: bleaching
The mammal that is extinct already in the island of Cebu and Masbate but can still be seen in Panay and Negros.
Answer: Visayan Warty Pig

A megabat that lives on Negros Island and two small populations live on Cebu Island in the Philippines; was thought to be extinct in
the Philippines, has recently been rediscovered, on the islands of Cebu in 2001 and Negros in 2003.
Answer: Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani) - CR

Which of the following is not a carnivorous type of plant?

a. venus flytrap b. pitcher c. waling-waling d. butterworts

To what group of animals do bats belong?

Answer: mammals

Name one critically endangered species of mammal in Negros.

Answer: Visayan warty pig, Philippine Bare-backed Fruit Bat

It refers to any natural mineral formation or deposit occurring in a cave or lava tube, including but not limited to any stalactite,
stalagmite, helictite, cave flower, flowstone, concretion, drapery, rimstone or formation of clay or mud.
Answer: Speleothem

True or False: The Philippines has 8% species of mammals but it has only one species of cat.
Answer: True

What is the largest endemic mammal in Negros?

Answer: Visayan Spotted Deer (Rusa alfredi) E

It refers to the populations of species that are still in existence.

Answer: extant

There have been no confirmed sightings of this bird since 1953 in Mt Kanlaon Natural Park and is considered “functionally extinct”.
Answer: Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus)

Give at least one species of flying fox found in Negros.

Answer: Golden-Crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) - E; Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) - NT; Island flying fox (Pteropus
hypomelanus - LC; Little Golden Mantled Flying Fox (Pteropus pumilus) - NT

It refers to the release into the environment by one plant of a substance that inhibits the germination or growth of other potential
competitor plants of the same or another species.
Answer: Allelopathy

The Northern Negros Natural Park (NNNP) was declared as a protected area by Presidential Proclamation No.______on August 15,
2005.
Answer: 895

This tree is one of the few conifer timber species endemic to the Philippines.
Answer: Almaciga (Agathis philippinensis) V

The sunbirds are neotropical counterparts of humming birds. These birds are pollinators of many ornamental and flowering plants in
the forests. Give one sunbird found in Negros.
Answer: Olive-backed sunbird, magnificent sunbird or crimson sunbird, maroon-naped sunbird and brown-throated sunbird

The NIPAS law is a national decree for the protection of important biodiversity areas in the country. What does NIPAS stand for?
Answer: National Integrated Protected Areas System

This is one species of butterfly found only in the forest of Mt. Kanlaon. What is the scientific name of the endemic butterfly?
Answer: Parantica davidi (David’s Tiger) - CR

One species of shrew endemic to Negros Island has a distinct white marking on the outlines of its ear. What is the English name of
this shrew?
Answer: Negros shrew - E

There is a number of Protected Area in Negros. Which of the following is not a Protected Area?
a. Mt. Kanla-on National Park b. NNNP c. Sagay Marine Reserve d. Danjugan Island

Limestone forests in the Philippines are one of the poorly protected ecosystems. In Negros Island, two of the species are known to
be restricted to this type of habitat. One is the Philippine bare-backed fruit bat and the other is _______________.
Answer: Negros Cave Frog
This Philippine endemic species was the first ever mammalian species that was discovered extinct until it was rediscovered in Cebu
and was also found at the South Western Negros forest. What is this species?
Answer: Philippine bare-backed fruit bat

O3 is also called___________________.
Answer: Ozone or Trioxide

Name the only city in the Philippines located within the three nationally-declared protected areas.
Answer: San Carlos City (Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park, NNNP and Taňon Strait Protected Seascape)

There are at least two species that has been declared as “functionally extinct” in Negros by Bird Life International. This includes the
Rufous-headed hornbill and the ______________.
Answer: Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus) - CR

This species of shorebird was recently sighted at Danjugan Island in Cauayan, Negros Occidental and is considered “Near
Threatened” by the IUCN?
Answer: beach stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) or beach thick-knee

The first mammals appeared approximately 200 million years ago during the__________Period.
Answer: Jurassic

What is the oldest group of mammal that is alive today?

Answer: monotreme

This era is considered to be the “age of mammals”.

Answer: Cenozoic Era

Who is the Father of Philippine Wildlife?

Answer: Dr. Dioscoro Rabor

This species of snake is born alive (unlike some snakes that are laid in eggs) and feeds mainly on small bird, frogs and lizards.
Answer: Asian Vine Snake

Give one example of kingfisher in Negros?

Answer: Spotted Wood Kingfisher (Actinoides lindsayi)

It refers to a taxon at the species level that has never before received a valid scientific name.
Answer: new species

Give one example of the migratory bird in the Philippines.

Answer: Common greenshank; common redshank; grey wagtail; little egret, oriental cuckoo

Give one example of the non-migratory or resident bird in the Philippines.

Answer: Olive-backed sunbird; barred rail; rufous night heron

A natural or artificial reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period.
Answer: carbon sink

Collective term for hardwood trees.

Answer: Dipterocarp (apitong, bagtikan, lauan, tangile, guijo, and yakal)

Waling-waling is the Queen of Philippine orchids. What is its scientific name?

Answer: Euanthe sanderiana or Vanda sanderiana - NE

361. What is the other name for CITES?

Answer: Washington Convention

The remaining forest cover in Negros is how many percent?

Answer: 4%

What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Visayan Leopard Cat?
Answer: Prionailurus bengalensis rabori; Vulnerable

Give one example of endangered mammal in Negros Island?

Answer: Visayan spotted deer, Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat, Negros shrew

Give one example of endangered bird in Negros Island?

Answer: Visayan tarictic hornbill and Flame- templed babbler

How many species of flying fox (fruit-eating bats) are present in Mambukal Resort?
Answer: 4 (Golden Crown flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) -E; Island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) - LC; Large flying fox (Pteropus
vampyrus) - NT and Little Golden Mantled Flying Fox (Pteropus pumilus)- NT

What is the scientific name of the s of Visayan warty pig in Negros?

Answer: Sus cebifrons

The golden- crowned flying fox is found in the Philippines. What is its IUCN status?
Answer: Endangered

What species of kingfisher which can be found in the islands of Negros, Cebu, Camiguin, Mindanao, Siquijor, Semirara, Romblon,
Tablas, Sibuyan, Tawi-tawi, Semirara, Basilan, Jolo and Bongao, was recently elevated to full status category?
Answer: Dimorphic kingfisher (formerly Variable dwarf kingfisher) – Ceyx margarethae

It refers to a species of subspecies that is facing extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future.
Answer: critically endangered

It refers to species or subspecies which is naturally occurring and found only within specific areas in the country.
Answer: Endemic species

Organism that is active during the night is known as ____________.

Answer: Nocturnal

It refers to the role of an organism within its natural environment that determines its relations with other organisms and ensures its
survival.
Answer: Niche

385. It is the process by which trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide, release the oxygen, and store the carbon.
Answer: Carbon sequestration

386. Sampaguita is the country’s national flower. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Jasminum sambac

388. What is the only marine reserve in Negros Occidental that is under the nationally-declared Protected Area?
Answer: Sagay Marine Reserve

389. What is the name of the rare and threatened aquatic species that can be found in the coastal waters of Pulupandan, and Bago
City?
Answer: Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) - V

393. The Upper Imbang-Calimban watershed area is located in the_________________.

a. NNNP b. Mt. Kanla-onNP c. Talinis-Twin Lakes Forest Reserve d. South Negros Forest Reserve

394. When did the first joining of the Philippines in the Earth Hour?
Answer: 2008

395. It is a relatively large area not materially altered by human activity where extractive resource uses are not allowed and
maintained to protect outstanding natural and scenic areas of national or international significance for scientific, educational and
recreational use.
Answer: Natural Park

396. What is the most common sunbird found in the garden?

Answer: Olive-backed sunbird

397. Harlequin flying frog (Rhacophorus pardalis) occurs only in Mindanao, Bohol, Luzon and___________.
Answer: Negros

It is a type of forest growing along tidal mudflats (shore) and along shallow water coastal areas extending inland along rivers,
streams and their tributaries where the water is generally brackish.
Answer: Mangrove Forest

408. It refers to the adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which
moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Answer: Adaptation

409. It refers to the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal
factors of disasters, including through reduced exposure to hazards, lessened vulnerability of people and property, wise
management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for adverse events.
Answer: Disaster Risk Reduction
410. Which of the following is a volant (flying) mammal?
a. Visayan spotted deer b. Visayan Warty Pig c. Large Flying Fox d. Negros shrew

411. What year celebrates the biggest Earth hour in history?

Answer: 2014

416. It refers to the number of species in a community or collection.

Answer: Species richness

417. It refers to the relative abundance of in a community or collection.

Answer: Species evenness

419. It is the symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a living plant.

Answer: Mycotrophy

420. A collective term for four-legged animals (reptiles, mammals, birds and amphibians).
Answer: Tetrapod

421. Brgy. Tibsoc is a new birding site in Negros occidental. Where is it located?
Answer: San Enrique

422. Animals with even number of toes such as pig belong to the Order_______________.
Answer: Artiodactyla

423. It is a bony outgrowth on head of deer.

Answer: Antler

426. What species is used as the logo of Negros Forest and Ecological Foundation, Inc?
Answer: Visayan Spotted Deer

427. It is the world’s first global, legally binding treaty to prevent emissions and releases of the notorious heavy metal, with the goal
of eventual phase out by 2020.
Answer: Minamata Convention

429. Ozone protects humans and other life forms on earth by shielding us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays,
particularly______.
Answer: UV-B

430. They are the flowering plants of the sea.

Answer: Sea grasses

431. What are the countries under the Coral Triangle?

Answer: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste

432. It refers to substances that significantly deplete or otherwise modify the ozone layer in a manner that is likely to result in
adverse effects on human health and the environment such as, but not limited to, chlorofluorocarbons, halons, and the like
Answer: Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS)

434. They are known as habitats of threatened species and designated as such based on scientific data taking into consideration
species endemicity and/or richness, presence of man-made pressures/threats to the survival of wildlife living in the area, among
others.
Answer: Critical habitats

436. The Philippine Environment Code is otherwise known____________________.

Answer: P.D. 1152

438. The Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) was sighted in 2014 at the North Negros Natural Park (NNNP) in Negros
Occidental and __________________in Negros Oriental.
Answer: Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park

439. Aside from Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni), what are the other types of hornbill in the Philippines?
Answer: Northern rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax) and Southern rufous hornbill (Buceros mindanensis)

441. Organisms that are active during the day are ______________.
Answer: Diurnal

448. What are the two world’s most critically endangered hornbills that can be found in the Philippines?
Answer: Visayan writhed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) and Sulu hornbill (Anthracoceros montani)

453. This bird which is locally known as “tagbaya” or “tagmaya” is the most common species of bulbul in the Philippines?
Answer: Visayan bulbul (Ixos guimarasensis)

454. This bird is the most abundant forest bird in Negros.

Answer: Visayan bulbul (Ixos guimarasensis)

455. The spotted wood kingfisher can be found in Luzon, Negros and __________ islands.
Answer: Panay

458. This large ground-dwelling bird, which inhabits beach forests and smaller islands, is also known as Philippine Scrubfowl or
Tabon Scrubfowl. This is an uncommon bird in Danjugan Island close to the town of Cauayan and Sipalay City.
Answer: Philippine megapode (Megapodius cumingii)

459. This bird only occurs in the Philippines within the following island group: Tablas, Romblon, Negros, Panay, Masbate and Cebu.
Answer: Crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)

460. This rootless and parasitic plant occurs only in Negros and Panay and is found only in Mt. Kanlaon NP in Negros Is.
Answer: Rafflesia speciosa

461. It is one of the larger species Platymantis dorsalis group. This species is common in the limestone forest of Negros island
particularly in Basay, Cauayan, Hinoba-an and Candoni forest.
Answer: Negros Cave Frog

462. This species of frog occurs at high elevation on the mountains of Negros and possibly Masbate islands in the Philippines. It is
one of the poorly known species of forest frogs in the country. It is also likely to occur in Panay Island.
Answer: Hazel’s Wrinkled Ground Frog (Platymantis hazelae)

463. This snake has been recorded in several localities in the Philippines. This is one of the poorly understood and known species of
snakes.
Answer: Dog-toothed Cat Snake

464. What is the largest of all terns in the Philippines?

Answer: Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia)

465. This bird is otherwise known as Maria Capra?

Answer: Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica)

466. This bird can only be found in the lowland forests of Negros and Panay and is among the sought-after for bird enthusiasts.
Answer: Flame-templed babbler (Dasycrotapha speciosa) - E

467. The Flame-templed babbler can be best seen in Murcia (Mambukal to Wasay) and _____________.
Answer: Gawahon Ecopark

468. This plant has a unique relationship with ants and scale insects. The scale insects inhabit the flowers and fruits of lipstick vine
where they produce a sweet substance called honeydew.
Answer: Lipstick vine (Aeschynanthus)

462. What Order of reptile is nearly extinct?

Answer: Rhyncocephalia

463. Parantica davidi (David’s Tiger), a critically endangered species of butterfly can only be found in the forest of ___________.
Answer: Mt. Kanlaon

464. What are the top 5 Asian countries which produce majority of plastic in world’s oceans?
Answer: China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand

466. One example of anuran is _______________.

a. frogs b. salamanders c. newts d. caecilians

467. What are the five megadiverse countries in Asia?

Answer: Philippines, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and India

468. It refers to natural phenomenon of nesting of hundreds of thousands of turtles.

Answer: Arribada

470. True or False: The Large flying fox is endemic in Negros Island.
Answer: False

471. Which of the following amphibians are under the Order Gymniophiona?
a. frogs b. salamanders c. newts d. caecilians
473. True or False: Unlike the other fruit bats, the large flying fox does not possess echolocation.
Answer: True

474. Which of the following mammals is a chiropteran?

a. Large flying fox b. Visayan warty pig c. Visayan spotted deer d. Negros shrew

475. It refers to the study of mammals.

Answer: Mammalogy
Ornithology - birds; Herpetology - reptiles; Batrachology - amphibians; Ichthyology - fishes

476. Lichen is a symbiotic relationship between ________ and ______________.

Answer: algae and fungi

477. The casting off of the part of the body of the animal when it is caught or attacked by a predator is called______.
Answer: Autotomy

478. It refers to a permit to take or collect from the wild certain species and quantities of wildlife for commercial purposes.
Answer: Wildlife collector’s permit

480. It comprises an area which assures the natural conditions necessary to protect nationally significant species, groups of species,
biotic communities or physical features of the environment where these may require specific human manipulation for the
perpetuation.
Answer: Wildlife sanctuary

493. What word describes an animal that eats both meat and vegetation?
Answer: Omnivore

494. Mammals include all animals without feathers and scales?

Answer: False (amphibians don’t have feathers and scales)

495. What sort of food does a frugivorous animal eat?

Answer: fruit

496. The theory that animals change over time to adapt to their surroundings is known as what?
Answer: Evolution

497. Which of these animal groups appeared on Earth first?

a. mammals b. amphibians c. reptiles d. fish

498. The most primitive mammals lay eggs. By what name are such mammals known collectively?
Answer: monotremes

499. Where is it thought that life appeared on our planet?

a. on land b. in rivers c. in the oceans d. in the air

500. Who wrote the Origin of Species?

Answer: Charles Darwin

501. Which flying creatures hunt using a natural form of radar?

Answer: bats

502. What is the world’s largest living reptile?

Answer: saltwater crocodile

503. What is a caiman?

a. a type of reptile b. a lizard c. a freshwater turtle d. a snake

504. What do woodpeckers eat?

a. wood b. beetle c. leaves d. fungus

What type of forest is home to the greatest number of species?

Answer: Tropical rain forest

It refers to a complete change of physical form.

Answer: metamorphosis

The process of changing feathers or fur.

Answer: molting

What reptiles are doing when they shed their skin?

Answer: sloughing

True or False: The first bird appeared on Earth before the first mammals.
Answer: False

In a food chain, plant-eating animals, are primary or secondary consumers?

Answer: primary consumers

True or False: caecilians are tailless animals.

Answer: False

Which mammals are grouped into the order Ungulata?

Answer: hoofed animals e.g. deer, pig
Other Order: Chiroptera - flying mammals e.g. bats; Rodentia - gnawing mammals e.g. Rats, squirrel, chipmunks and mice
Lagomorpha - mammals with four incisor teeth e.g. Rabbits; Edentata - toothless mammals e.g. armadillo, sloth and anteaters;
Cetacia – order of dolphins and porpoise; marine water; Sirenia – order of dugong, manatee; freshwater; Proboscidea – trunk-
nosed mammals e.g. elephant; Carnivora – flesh-eating mammals e.g cat, dog, lion, tiger

It means a group of eggs laid at the same time.

Answer: clutch

The eggs of frogs and toads are commonly called what?

Answer: spawn

Two types of mammal lay eggs? Name one of them.

Answer: echidna (spiny anteater) or duck-billed platypus

The dung of bats known as guano is collected for use as what?

Answer: fertilizer

The largest living mammal on Earth?

Answer: Blue whale

What is the new name of Protected Area and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB)?
Answer: Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB)

True or False. Protection of Dugong and Tortoise are governed by BFAR.

Answer: False (PAWB)

In what biome does our country belong to?

Answer: Tropical rainforest

The first wetland of international importance (Ramsar Convention) in the Philippines and is the host of the largest concentration of
migratory birds.
Answer: Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

What do PENRO and PEMO stand for?

Answer: Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office: Provincial Environment and Management Office

An edible frog that is known from Masbate, Cebu, Negros, Guimaras, Panay and Siquijor (the central islands) in the Philippines.
Answer: Visayan fanged frog or Giant Philippine Woodland Frog (Limnonectes visayanus) - V

If the sunbird is the hummingbird counterpart of America, the _____________ is the toucan counterpart of America.
Answer: hornbill

In what type of forest does the Negros cave frog live?

Answer: Limestone forest

True or False: Only flying foxes can be found at Mambukal Resort Bat Sanctuary.
Answer: True

What is the total land area of Apo Island Protected Landscape and Seascape (Dauin, Negros Oriental)?
Answer: 691.45 hectares

What is the country's largest marine protected area?

Answer: Cagancillo

Pulang Tubi waterfalls in Patag, Silay can be found in what protected area in NIR?
Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park
 What is the new species of ground orchid discovered in the Philippines?
Answer: Gastrodia cajanoae – LC (The orchid was observed in Mt. Apo Natural Park, Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park, Northern
Negros Natural Park, and in Mt. Province and discovered by Pieter Pelser, Julie Barcelona, Peter O'Byrne, and Paul Ormerod and Kim
John Doble

The only Rafflesia flower in the Philippines shared by two islands: Negros and Panay.
Answer: Rafflesia speciosa

What are the 6 PAs of NIR?

Answer: Apo Island Protected Landscape and Seascape, Northern Negros Natural Park, Tañon Strait Protected Seascape, Mt. Kanlaon
Natural Park, Sagay Marine Reserve and Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park

Among the three groups of mammals, which one exists in the Philippines?
Answer: Eutherian

What is the collected term used when referring to hoofed-mammals?

Answer: Ungulate

The living ecological factors such as plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms are collectively known as _______.
Answer: Biotic

Negros shrew can be found only in what particular place in Negros island?
Answer: Cuernos de Negros

In what Phylum do mammals belong to?

Answer: Chordata

The only protected area in Negros which supports the largest remaining population of Rufous-headed hornbill.
Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park

Penelopides panini is endemic in Panay, Sicogon, Guimaras, pand de Azucar, Negros, Masbate and _________.
Answer: Ticao Island

What is the meaning of CPA and EBA?

Answer: Conservation Priority Area; Endemic Bird Area

Plants synthesize protein from________________.

Answer: amino acid

They are the oldest known land vertebrates and have the ideal subjects to study the theory of evolution.
Answer: amphibians

Most of the red, blue and purple of plants are due to _______________-.
Answer: anthocyanin

Of the following taxonomic categories, which one is the most inclusive? the most exclusive?
a. Family b. Class (in) c. Order d. Genuse. Species (ex)

T/F. Hornbills are found in the South American and Asian continents.
Answer: False (only African and Asian)

This group of animals represents more than 95% of species diversity but little attention is given to them in research, policy and
economic conservation.
Answer: invertebrates

Of the 5 species of the bleeding heart pigeon, how many are categorized as CR of the IUCN?
Answer: 3 Negros, Mindanao and Sulu Bleeding heart pigeon

What is the total land area of Northern Negros Natural Park?

Answer: 80, 000 ha (actual is 80,454 ha); 30, 178 rainforest

These are places of international importance for the conservation of biodiversity through protected areas and other governance
mechanism.
Answer: Key Biodiversity Area

What is the common English name of Strongylodon macrobotrys?

Answer: Jade vine

This snake was not known to exist in Negros until 2014 where it was recorded in NNNP by PBCFI. What is this species?
Answer: Philippine Pit Viper (Tremeresurus flavumaculatus) DD
In what genus did the 2 hornbill species belong prior to Rhabdotorrhinus?
Answer: Aceros

When was the NNNP declared as a Protected Area through Presidential Proclamation No. 895?
Answer: August 15, 2008

NNNP is the main source of water for how many municipalities and cities? In Negros Occidental?
Answer: seventeen (17)

It is the largest remaining evergreen forest in Negros island and in the Central Philippines.
Answer: NNNP

The NNNP falls within the jurisdiction of what cities and municipalities?
Answer: Talisay, Silay, Victorias, Cadiz, Sagay and San Carlos; and the municipalities of: E. B. Magalona, Murcia, Toboso, Calatrava
and Don Salvador Benedicto.

631. What is the total land area of Apo Island Protected Landscape and Seascape?
Answer: 691.45 hectares

What is the previous name of Northern Negros Natural Park?

Answer: Northern Negros Forest Reserve

NNFR was proclaimed in 1935 under the Presidential Proclamation No. __________.
Answer: 798

How many roosting sites of Golden crowned flying fox are there in Western Visayas?
Answer: 4 (Boracay, Mambukal, Canlusong, Mt Kanlaon)

The government agency mandated to establish and manage protected areas, conserve wildlife, promote and institutionalize
ecotourism and manage coastal biodiversity.
Answer Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB); old name: PAWB (Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau)

A form of biological resemblance in which a noxious or dangerous organism equipped with a warning system such as conspicuous
coloration is mimic by a harmless organism.
Asnwer: Batesian mimicry

The species of landbird with a global breeding range of less than 50, 000 km2?
Answer: restricted range species

In what genus does the largest hornbill belong?

Answer: Buceros

What is the scientific name of the pitcher plant discovered in the mountain of Sierra Madre?
Answer: Nepenthes barcelonae - CR

Thru the recent taxonomic review, the Sulawesi hornbill was put in the Rhabdotorrhinus along with Rufous-headed hornbill and
writhed hornbill. With this change, the genus where the Sulawesi hornbill formerly belongs becomes an endemic genus of the
Philippines where it is composed of four species? What Philippine hornbill genus is this?
Answer: Penelopides

________is a multisectoral and decision making body for each of the protected area established under the NIPAs.
Answer: Protected Area Management Board

The largest family of the flowering plants of which the Philippines has more than endemic 1000 species?
Answer: Orchidaceae

It is the natural process by which certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat that would otherwise escape to space keeping the planet
warms
Answer; greenhouse effect

It occurs when mating occurs between individuals or organisms that are genetically related.
Answer: inbreeding

What is the largest category into which the organisms have been classified?
Answer: Domain

It refers to a group of organisms that have the same characteristics and are capable to interbreed.
Answer: species
What are the examples of organisms under the kingdom Archaebacteria?
Answer: methanogens, halophiles (salt-loving), thermophiles (heat-loving)

In what Kingdom do the true bacteria belong?

Answer: Eubacteria

In what Kingdom do the algae, dinoflagellates, paramecium, amoeba and euglenoids belong?
Answer: Kingdom Protista

What is the largest group of algae?

Answer: Brown algae

What is the name of the dinoflagellates that cause red tide?

Answer: Pyrodinium bahamense var compressum

T/F: Fungi can produce their food.

Answer: False

They are known as the simplest form of animal organisms.

Answer: sponges

What is the name of the stinging cells present in the tentacles of the jellyfish?
Answer: nematocyst

The maximum environment size an organism can support.

Answer: Carrying capacity

The first evolutionist to believe that organisms change over time.

Answer: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (proposed the Theory of Need; Theory of Use and Disuse; Theory of Acquired Characteristics)

Who proposed the theory of Natural Selection?

Answer: Charles Darwin

Structure in different organisms that are similar in function but different in origin.
Answer: Analogous structure

This method is used to tell the age of the decaying organic matter.
Answer: Carbon dating

They are probably one of the first and the oldest organisms on Earth.
Answer: Invertebrates

Different organisms that are similar in structure but serve different functions.
Answer: Homologous structure

The measure of population per unit area.

Answer: Population density

The ability of an ecosystem to be self-regulating and again become steady after disturbance.
Answer: Stability

It refers to a change of species over time.

Answer: Evolution

In what era can the oldest fossil be found?

Answer: Pre-cambrian era

An environmental conditions that keep a population from over increasing in size and thus help balance ecosystem.
Answer: limiting factor

What are the five KBAs in Negros Island?

Answer: NNNP, Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park; Southwestern Negros, Cuernos de Negros Mt. Talinis; Banban

It refers to a permanent, close association between one or more organisms of different species.
Answer: Symbiosis (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism)

A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither harmed nor benefited.
Answer: Commensalism
A path of energy from producer to consumer.
Answer: food chain

A theory which states that organisms with favorable variations survive, reproduce, and pass their variations to the next generation
“survival of the fittest”.
Answer: Theory of Natural Selection

693. In what phylum does jellyfish belong?

Answer: Cnidaria
Phylum Porifera spore-bearing sponges
Phylum Cnidaria stinging cells jellyfish
Phylum Platyhelmenthis flatworms tapeworms, planaria, fluke
Phylum Nematoda round worms nematodes
Phylum Annelida segmented worms earthworms
Phylum Echinodermata spiny-skinned starfish
Phylum Mollusca soft-bodied snails
Phylum Arthropoda joint-legged insects
Phylum Chordata vertebral column mammals, fish, bird, reptiles

A form of biological resemblance in which a noxious or dangerous organism equipped with a warning system such as conspicuous
coloration is mimic by another dangerous organism.
Asnwer: Mullerian mimicry

Species that gather in globally significant numbers at a particular site and at a particular time in their life cycle for feeding, breeding
or resting (during migration).
Answer: Congregatory species

__________ an ecological unit composed of a group of organisms of population of different species occupying a particular area,
usually interacting with each other and their environment.
Answer: community

All members of Rafflesia family are incapable of photosynthesis.

Answer: True

______ is the term used to describe an organism that lives on/or another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host
expense.
Answer: parasitism

During the 13th ASEAN Ministerial meeting on environment in Vietnam last October 16, 2015, the Philippines has gained its 8 th ASEAN
Heritage Park. What is the name of that park?
Answer: Mt. Timpoon Hibik-hibok Natural Monument (Camiguin) - 3,739.14 ha

IUCN Red List classified the species into how many groups?
Answer: Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups, set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area
of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmentation.
1. Extinct (EX) – No known individuals remaining.
2. Extinct in the wild (EW) – Known only to survive in captivity, or as a naturalized population outside its historic range.
3. Critically endangered (CR) – Extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
4. Endangered (EN) – High risk of extinction in the wild.
5. Vulnerable (VU) – High risk of endangerment in the wild.
6. Near threatened (NT) – Likely to become endangered in the near future.
7. Least concern (LC) – Lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at-risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included
in this category.
8. Data deficient (DD) – Not enough data to make an assessment of its risk of extinction.
9. Not evaluated (NE) – Has not yet been evaluated against the criteria.

721. When is the International Shorebird Day celebrated?

Answer: September 6

How many UNESCO’s World Network of biosphere reserves are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 3 (Albay Biosphere Reserve; Palawan Biosphere Reserves; Puerto Galera Biosphere Reserves)

The only UNESCO biosphere reserve in the country that contains a Ramsar Wetland Site (Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park) and two
UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Tubbataha Reefs National Park and the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park).
Answer: Palawan Biosphere Reserve

What is the largest Ramsar site in the Philippines?

Answer: Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area
__________ is the latest to be added to UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves in 2016.
Answer: Albay Biosphere Reserves

_________ are ‘Science for Sustainability Support Sites’ comprising terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems. Each reserve
promotes solutions reconciling the conservation of biodiversity with its sustainable use.
Answer: Biosphere reserves

These are areas of national significance which are characterized by the harmonious interaction of man and land while providing
opportunities for public enjoyment through recreation and tourism within the normal lifestyle and economic activity of these areas.
Answer: Protected landscapes

It is a relatively small area focused on protection of small features to protect or preserve nationally significant natural features on
account of their special interest or unique characteristics.
Answer: Natural monument

Species or subspecies considered as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or other accepted categories of wildlife whose
population is at risk of extinction
Answer: Threatened species

These are forest reservations essentially of natural wilderness character which have been withdrawn from settlement, occupancy or
any form of exploitation except in conformity with approved management plan and set aside as such exclusively to conserve the
area or preserve the scenery, the natural and historic objects, wild animals and plants therein and to provide enjoyment of these
features in such areas.
Answer: National Parks

It is an area of land identified by BirdLife International as being important for habitat-based bird conservation because it contains
the habitats of restricted-range bird species, which are thereby endemic to them.
Answer: Endemic Bird Area

It refers to the number of species within a given sample, community, or area.

Answer: Species richness

A species whose status provides information on the overall condition of the ecosystem and of other species in that ecosystem. They
reflect the quality and changes in environmental conditions as well as aspects of community composition.
Answer: Indicator species

Any species or lower taxon of wild animals, in which a significant proportion of the members of the entire population or any
geographically separate part of the population cyclically and predictably crosses one or more national jurisdictional boundaries.
Answer: Migratory species

A species that has been observed in the form of a naturally occurring and self-sustaining population in historical times.
Answer: native species

It refers to how close in numbers each species in an environment is.

Answer: species evenness

It is the only known trans-boundary protected area in the Philippines and in the world.
Answer: Turtle Islands Heritage Protected Area (TIHPA)

Who used an imaginary line to describe the separation of Oriental and Australian faunal regions?
Answer: Alfred Russel Wallace

It refers to the aggregation of all ecosystems or the sum of all of the organisms of the earth and their environment.
Answer: Biosphere

Climate Change Consciousness Week

Answer: November 21-25

An international treaty regulating the use and trade of mercury, a highly toxic substance that poses threats to human health and the
environment.
Answer: Minamata Convention

It is considered the Queen of Parasite.

Answer: rafflesia

Species or subspecies which do not naturally occur in the country.

Answer: Exotic species

It refers to a cave which contains materials possesses features that have archaeological, cultural, ecological, historical or scientific
value as determined by the DENR in coordination with the scientific community and the academe.
Answer: Significant cave

The type of evolution wherein there is an increase in similarities among species from different ancestors as a result of similar
adaptation to similar environment
Answer: Convergent Evolution

The young of whale shark is known as _______________.

Answer: pup (fawn – young of visayan spotted deer; pup – young of bat; nestling – young of bird; fry – young of fish ; calf – young of
whale; infant – young of primate (e.g. tarsier)

A group of plant that lacks xylem and phloem which is generally considered as nonvascular plant.
Answer: Bryophyte

The movement of bird from one habitat or another in response to seasonal and food supply changes.
Answer: Migration (Emigration – one-way outward movement; Immigration – one-way inward movement)

An orderly change of the ecosystem from the original stage to a mature or stable community.
Answer: Ecological succession

The Palawan bearcats are arboreal species. Arboreal means:

Answer: They live on trees (Terrestrial – those that live on the ground; Fossorial– those that live underground; Aquatic – those that
live in or near water)

The term used to be in a dormant state resembling sleep over the winter while living off reserves of body fat, with a decrease in
body temperature and pulse rate and slower metabolism.
Answer: Hibernation (Estivation - resembling sleep over the summer)

Organisms which are mostly active at dawn and dusk.

Answer: Crepuscular (Nocturnal - sleep during the day and are active at night e.g. bats, tarsiers; Diurnal - active during the day and
sleep at night)

An individual that produces both sperm/pollen and egg/ova.

Answer: Hermaphrodite

Groups of fruit bats roosting in treetops.

Answer: Camps

The ability to slow down the body’s metabolism and lower body temperature to conserve energy during periods of inactivity or low
food supply
Answer: Torpor

The resting area of bats is known as ___________.

Answer: Roost

The often brightly colored marking of animals possessing chemical defenses. The coloration provides a caution to their predators.
Answer: Camouflage/Warning Coloration

The type of evolution wherein there is an increase in difference among descendants of a single ancestral species at time passes.
Answer: Divergent evolution

It refers to the remain of once living things.

Answer: fossil

In what faunal region does the new species of warty pig has been discovered?
Answer: Sulu Faunal Region

Global Earth Hour Capital.

Answer: Paris, France

It is known as the clock of the mountain.

Answer: hornbill

The Palawan fruit bat is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found only in the Palawan Faunal Region. What is its
scientific name?
Answer: (Acerodon leucotis)