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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many species of army ants were found in the tropics?
(a) 45-50.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) 50-60.
(d) Dozens.

2. When was a nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton found in a cave in southern France?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1908.

3. What was the second-largest coral reef located?
(a) Red Sea.
(b) Indian ocean.
(c) Off the coast of Belize.
(d) Caribbean.

4. In Chapter 7, by what percent did a study by Australian researchers find that the Great Barrier Reef had declined in the last thirty years?
(a) 30.
(b) 35.
(c) 50.
(d) 45.

5. How many prey could a colony of army ants on the march consume per day?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 75,000.

6. When was the last known Javan rhino in Vietnam killed?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2010.

7. How long was the debate about Darwin's theory in his 1842 book "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" debated?
(a) Until the mid-1800s.
(b) Until the 1930s.
(c) Until the 1940s.
(d) Until the 1950s.

8. On the Great Barrier Reef, how large were the sea cucumbers?
(a) Size of a children's table.
(b) Size of a swim tube.
(c) Size of bolster cushions.
(d) Size of cucumbers.

9. What was Suci given while she had an ultrasound?
(a) Apple slices.
(b) Banana.
(c) Orange slices
(d) Hay.

10. How many species new to science had Silman and his students found?
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

11. Who was credited with having put the term "biological diversity" into general circulation?
(a) E. O. Wilson.
(b) Cohn-Haft.
(c) Tom Lovejoy.
(d) Rita Mesquita.

12. From a single species of tree, how many species of beetles had entomologist Terry Erwin collected?
(a) 814.
(b) 950.
(c) 789.
(d) 1,045.

13. According to the Geological Society of America, how much land had people directly transformed?
(a) About 5 million square acres.
(b) About 27 million square miles.
(c) About 45 million square acres.
(d) About 35 million square acres.

14. At BDFFP in Chapter 9, what bird species would cross road clearings?
(a) Yello-tufted woodpecker.
(b) Black-tailed tityra.
(c) White-crowned manakins.
(d) Scale-backed antbirds.

15. What was on the ground at One Tree Island?
(a) Coral rubble.
(b) Black dirt.
(c) Lava stones.
(d) Sand.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lyell visit Big Bone Lick and purchase teeth of a baby mastodon?

2. When did Suci's mother die?

3. How much could poachers sell rhino horns on the black market?

4. In Chapter 11, how many species of Rhino did the author say still existed?

5. In 1984 when conservationists gathered in Singapore to work out a Sumatran rhino rescue strategy, how many rhinos were caught for a captive breeding program?

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