View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How many species of arthropods did Terry Erwin estimate lived in the tropics?

5. In Chapter 11, how many Javan rhinos were believed to be left?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did coral reefs grow?

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

3. What was Biosphere 2?

4. How did tree diversity vary around the world?

5. What were the hobbits?

6. What was the white powder found on bats and that seemed to be killing them?

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

8. What are some theories for why the alala became extinct in the wild?

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

10. What was one bird species Cohn-Haft discovered through rigorous listening?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Isolation seems to threaten the diversity of a species. What are some causes of isolation that seem to threaten species? Why don't species just adapt in smaller numbers when isolated?

Essay Topic 3

The Birnam Wood scenario speculated that climate change would cause trees to move upslope. How would climate change cause trees to move from a lower elevation to a higher elevation and why was that significant?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 706 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample