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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preston's Bell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Quammen say an island is?
(a) A fundamentally unique environment.
(b) An isolate.
(c) A sample.
(d) A replica of other ecosystems.

2. What does Quammen use as an example of an island?
(a) Mountaintop ecosystems.
(b) The komodo dragon's territory.
(c) Yellowstone national park.
(d) Indonesia.

3. What was Tasmania's environmental history, according to Quammen?
(a) It experienced a catastrophic eruption that killed off everything on the island, before life returned slowly.
(b) It was isolated by a growing mountain range in India.
(c) It was separated from Australia by water.
(d) It was formed by a volcano in the sea.

4. How does Quammen describe the komodo dragon's territory?
(a) As inseparable from the islands where it developed.
(b) As any environment that satisfies its survival requirements.
(c) As the whole history of its development in the ecosystem.
(d) As an island within an island.

5. What kinds of animals did Philip Darlington look at?
(a) Insects.
(b) Reptiles.
(c) Birds.
(d) Mammals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species of the animal Philip Darlington studied did an island of four square miles possess?

2. Where does Quammen say isolates can occur?

3. How do scientists relate data from samples and isolates to larger areas?

4. What is a trophic cascade?

5. What rule governs the relationship between the size of an island and the number of species it can support?

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