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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Song of the Indri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the data from Krakatau match Wilson and MacArthur's predictions?
(a) Closely.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Roughly.
(d) Hardly.

2. What is the term that encompasses David Quammen's overall idea?
(a) Functional adaptation.
(b) Island biogeography.
(c) Ecosystem collapse.
(d) Survival of the fittest.

3. Who is Thomas Lovejoy?
(a) Director of National Parks in the U.S.
(b) Director of conservation in the U.S. government.
(c) Director of the World Wildlife Fund.
(d) Director of the Sierra Club.

4. Why, according to Quammen, is the theory of equilibrium important to science?
(a) Because it is a model for human populations.
(b) Because it applies to mainland populations.
(c) Because it models species extinction worldwide.
(d) Because it can be used to predict human emigrations.

5. What evidence did Wallace site to suggest problems with the special creation theory?
(a) That human beings could be found in every climate.
(b) That when species were displaced, they sometimes thrived in the new territory.
(c) That species had adapted to every different environment on earth.
(d) That some ecological niches went unfilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Wallace travel after the Amazon?

2. What were Frank Preston's findings in plotting the distribution of species in island habitats?

3. What does Quammen say makes animals smaller on islands?

4. What did Wilson and MacArthur argue influenced the number of species on an island?

5. Who did Robert Bates work with?

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