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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through World in Pieces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Quammen say increases as individuals breed with genetically similar individuals?
(a) Birth defects.
(b) Anxiety and reproductive complications.
(c) Congenital flaws.
(d) Hostility in breeding.

2. What did the dodo eat?
(a) Small mammals and snakes.
(b) Insects.
(c) Other birds.
(d) Fruit.

3. When did the Mauritius kestrel population begin to decline?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1990s.

4. What did Lawrence Abele find in his studies?
(a) That immigration and extinction are mitigated by adaptation and evolve.
(b) That human influences are part of the environment and cannot be ignored in theories.
(c) That the territorial needs of each species will be determined by their place on the food chain.
(d) That two coral heads supported more species than one similar-sized head.

5. What did Wilson and MacArthur argue influenced the number of species on an island?
(a) The island's distance from the mainland.
(b) The altitude of its mountains.
(c) The fertility of the soil, or temperature of the water.
(d) A natural rhythm of immigration and extinction.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did sailors describe the dodo?

2. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?

3. Why, according to Quammen, is the theory of equilibrium important to science?

4. What would Carl Jones feed to the wild Mauritius kestrels?

5. How long after the eruption did it take for 271 species to be counted at Krakatau?

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