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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ken Caldeira do before becoming an atmospheric scientists?

2. How big was One Tree Island?

3. In an average day, how many pounds of ficus leaves would Suci eat?

4. What was on the ground at One Tree Island?

5. Who was the first scientist to test sensitivity of coral to the saturation state?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened when bats hibernated?

3. How did the author decide to go to One Tree?

4. Who was the first European to encounter the Great Barrier Reef, and how did he come across it?

5. What was Cohn-Haft's job when he first worked at Reserve 1202?

6. Where did coral reefs grow?

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

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

9. What was Biosphere 2?

10. How had the road BR-174 changed over the years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Darwin believed natural selection determined which species survived or became extinct. What exactly was natural selection and how was it supposed to work in determining which species survived and which became extinct?

Essay Topic 2

Darwin was greatly influenced by Lyell. How did Darwin's theories first support and then contradict Lyell's theories? Why did that cause a rift between the men?

Essay Topic 3

Thomas Kuhn believed that perception played a role in scientific study. How did perception cause scientists to stubbornly hold on to misguided theories and what would finally cause theories to be abandoned or revised?

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