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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. In a cave in Vermont, how many bat corpses piled up on the ground after they were affected by "Geomyces destructans"?

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

3. From a single species of tree, how many species of beetles had entomologist Terry Erwin collected?

4. How big was One Tree Island?

5. In Chapter 8, how many species of trees did Miles Silman say were in his plots?`

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the Frozen Zoo?

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

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

6. What was Biosphere 2?

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

8. How did tree diversity vary around the world?

9. What happened when bats hibernated?

10. Where did coral reefs grow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Zalasiewicz and other geologists were interested in studying graptolites. What were graptolites and why were they significant to geologists?

Essay Topic 2

Biosphere 2 was built to show how life could survive in a closed environment. What factors lead to the failure of Biosphere 2 and why couldn't the humans who lived there survive inside?

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?

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