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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it called to bring a species back from extinction?
(a) Genetic rebirth.
(b) Genetic rescue.
(c) Frankenstein genetics.
(d) Genetic resurrection.

2. How much of the Caribbean coral disappeared in the 1980s?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 90%.
(c) Over 1/2.
(d) 2/3.

3. What are Van Oppen and her students’ plans for coral?
(a) Revitalize the reefs that have been lost.
(b) Buy time until the world takes climate change more seriously.
(c) Keep the reefs from dying and shrinking any further.
(d) Create new reefs and ecosystems.

4. How many species are thought to live in reefs around the world?
(a) 1 - 9 million.
(b) 10 - 20 million.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 10 - 90,000

5. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.
(b) Make them less abundant.
(c) Make them edible.
(d) Make them hard to swallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?

2. A widely supported view regarding years the effect of human behavior on the environment is that it did not really become significant until when?

3. Why were cane toads first introduced outside of their natural environments?

4. What is a NOT a technique listed by Kolbert to support species that were brought back from the brink of extinction?

5. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?

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