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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, by official count, how many species of birds were there in the Amazon?
(a) 500.
(b) 750.
(c) 1,300.
(d) 250.

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

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

5. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Around dusk.
(d) Before dawn.

6. In 1835, where did Darwin view a coral reef?
(a) Australia.
(b) Caribbean.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Moorea.

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

8. When Acropora millepora spawned, how many sperm were in each egg-sperm bundle?
(a) 1,000s.
(b) 75.
(c) 150.
(d) 100s.

9. Where did Silman teach?
(a) Furman University.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) Wake Forest University.
(d) Clemson University.

10. In Chapter 11, how many species of Rhino did the author say still existed?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

11. For his genome project, how many bones was Paaba able to obtain?
(a) 14.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 21.

12. What did Suci weigh at birth?
(a) 30 pounds.
(b) 70 pounds.
(c) 50 pounds.
(d) 85 pounds.

13. Where did Suci, the Sumatran rhino, live?
(a) Detroit Zoo.
(b) Kansas City Zoo.
(c) Cincinnati Zoo.
(d) Denver Zoo.

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

15. What cyclone added a ridge on One Tree Island in March 2009?
(a) Hamish.
(b) Rina.
(c) Jose.
(d) Arlene.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species of native trees were found in Vermont?

2. How many Sumtran rhinos were born at the Cincinnati Zoo?

3. How much Denisovan DNA did contemporary New Guineans carry?

4. In the 1970s, how many species of birds were discovered to live on One Tree?

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

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