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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the author wrote Chapter 9, how much of the earth was ice-free?
(a) 25 million square miles.
(b) 50 million square miles.
(c) 75 million square miles.
(d) 45 million square miles.

2. What did Paabo's team received as an award for a paper they published in "Science" in May 2010?
(a) $75,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $30,000.
(d) $25,000.

3. In Chapter 7, by what percent did a study by Australian researchers find that the Great Barrier Reef had declined in the last thirty years?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 35.
(d) 45.

4. How much would the temperature of a hibernating bat drop?
(a) 5-10 degrees.
(b) 50-60 degrees.
(c) 30-40 degrees.
(d) 15-20 degrees.

5. In Chapter 11, how many Javan rhinos were believed to be left?
(a) Less than 50.
(b) About 30.
(c) 22.
(d) 16.

6. What was served for dinner on the first night of Hanukkah in Chapter 7?
(a) Pig.
(b) Beef.
(c) Kangaroo meat.
(d) Lamb.

7. In the northeastern United States, which bats were the first to go into hibernation?
(a) Little browns.
(b) Gray.
(c) Canyon.
(d) Evening.

8. How many different species might be involved in building a coral reef?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 35.
(d) 50.

9. When were bones discovered in a cave that gave the world the Neanderthal?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1843.

10. When did Lyell visit Big Bone Lick and purchase teeth of a baby mastodon?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1824.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1853.

11. When did Paabo announce his project to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2002.

12. From a single species of tree, how many species of beetles had entomologist Terry Erwin collected?
(a) 950.
(b) 814.
(c) 1,045.
(d) 789.

13. How many species of arthropods did Terry Erwin estimate lived in the tropics?
(a) 30 million.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 100,000.

14. When was it believed that the Neanderthal vanished?
(a) 20,000 years ago.
(b) 15,000 years ago.
(c) 30,000 years ago.
(d) 25,000 years ago.

15. How many people lived in Biosphere 2 for two years?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to American naturalists, Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer, how many species did they discover that lived in association with "Eciton burchellii" army ants?

2. In 1984 when conservationists gathered in Singapore to work out a Sumatran rhino rescue strategy, how many rhinos were caught for a captive breeding program?

3. Where did Suci, the Sumatran rhino, live?

4. On the Great Barrier Reef, how large were the sea cucumbers?

5. How many prey could a colony of army ants on the march consume per day?

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