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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. At the time the author visited BDFFP, how many scientific papers had been written about the area?
(a) 612.
(b) 739.
(c) More than 500.
(d) About 800.

2. On the Great Barrier Reef, how large were the sea cucumbers?
(a) Size of cucumbers.
(b) Size of bolster cushions.
(c) Size of a swim tube.
(d) Size of a children's table.

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

4. When were the first bats found that appeared to have been dipped in talcum powder?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2006.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Cohn-Haft and his colleagues banded birds across the reserve, how many did they band?

3. According to the Geological Society of America, how much land had people directly transformed?

4. When was the best time to take a bat census?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Terry Erwin count beetles in the late 1970s?

2. Where and when were the first Neanderthal bones discovered?

3. What was the Frozen Zoo?

4. What did Suci eat at the zoo?

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

6. Where did coral reefs grow?

7. Where had Neanderthal bones been discovered after they were first discovered in Germany?

8. In the 1950s, what led William Straus and Alexander Cave to believe that Neanderthals walked upright?

9. How did the author describe the forest as they descended to Silman's tree plots in Chapter 8?

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

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