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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many species of birds were estimated to live in the entire world?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 8,000.
2. Where did Silman teach?
(a) Wake Forest University.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) Furman University.
(d) Clemson University.
3. When was it believed that the Neanderthal vanished?
(a) 15,000 years ago.
(b) 20,000 years ago.
(c) 25,000 years ago.
(d) 30,000 years ago.
4. From a single species of tree, how many species of beetles had entomologist Terry Erwin collected?
(a) 1,045.
(b) 814.
(c) 950.
(d) 789.
5. How much could poachers sell rhino horns on the black market?
(a) About $15,000 a pound.
(b) $31,000 a pound.
(c) More than $20,000 a pound.
(d) $11,000 a pound.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Ken Caldeira do before becoming an atmospheric scientists?
2. During the statary phase when ants stay mostly in one place to raise a new generation, how long might the ants stay put?
3. How many species of army ants were found in the tropics?
4. Of the world's eight species of bears, how many were categorized as vulnerable to extinction or endangered?
5. How far was it to walk from the research station on One Tree to DK-13?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where had Neanderthal bones been discovered after they were first discovered in Germany?
2. What was the white powder found on bats and that seemed to be killing them?
3. Where and when were the first Neanderthal bones discovered?
4. Why did Cohn-Haft believe that there were more species of birds in the Amazon than thirteen hundred?
5. Who was the first European to encounter the Great Barrier Reef, and how did he come across it?
6. What were the hobbits?
7. How had the road BR-174 changed over the years?
8. What was the Frozen Zoo?
9. What did Suci eat at the zoo?
10. How did the author describe the forest as they descended to Silman's tree plots in Chapter 8?
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