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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 8, how many species of trees did Miles Silman say were in his plots?`
(a) 750.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,200.

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

4. What was on the ground at One Tree Island?
(a) Sand.
(b) Black dirt.
(c) Lava stones.
(d) Coral rubble.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much could poachers sell rhino horns on the black market?

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

3. How many different species might be involved in building a coral reef?

4. How many tree plots had Silman established to study climate change in the tropics?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Frozen Zoo?

2. How were Silman's tree plots laid out?

3. What was the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project?

4. What were the hobbits?

5. As early as the 1840s what explanations had been proposed for the megafauna extinction?

6. How did tree diversity vary around the world?

7. Why did Cohn-Haft believe that there were more species of birds in the Amazon than thirteen hundred?

8. Where did coral reefs grow?

9. How did the author describe One Tree Island?

10. How did army ants differ from most other ants?

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