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1. What information do you not put on your scantron?
a. no social security
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2. Why is Hawaii an ideal place to study biology?
a. Hawaii Has Rare and Unique Organisms, Highest Extinction Rate in United States, complex environments.
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3. Where is the best place to look for the dates of exams?
a. syllabus
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4. What are the main goals of the course?
a. Basic Bio terminology, Key Bio concepts, Current Bio issues, etc...
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5. Your grade is based on:
a. Exams
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6. What is the native bird mentioned as?
a. Endangered
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7. Key themes of this course:
a. How science has developed historically. Relationship between science and society. Key processes are the same for all organisms. Significance of biological variation and adaptability.
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1. Science is based on evidence being more important than:
a. Authority and revelation
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2. A scientist who claims he or she is right because they are an important person
a. Authority
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3. One of the major problems of subjectivity in science is that:
a. Moral value systems are subjective. Science cannot resolve moral issues.
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4. In science a theory is:
a. �Statement used to describe or explain a phenomenon.�
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5. You can be certain that a theory is true:
a. When a hypotheses becomes thoroughly tested with repeated experiments.
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6. �My three best friends tried it and it worked for them. I�m sure that it really works,� is:
a. Not a valid theory or hypothesis
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7. Pathological science is:
a. "people are tricked into false results ... by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions"
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8. Causality, as a principle of science, means:
a. Relationship between cause and effect
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1. The development of paper & writing:
a. 5000 years ago
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2. Galen�s anatomy textbook was used for nearly 1,000 years because:
a. To speak against Galen would be heresy
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3. Plant identification was aided by:
a. Linnaeus classification system
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4. Scurvy had an impact on long-distance exploration:
a. killed sailors, lack of vitamin c, etc
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5. Crop domestication began:
a. prehistoric period, 8000 bce
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6. Binominal nomenclature:
a. Binomial literally means two names. Each organism has one species name. Binomial consists of genus + specific epithet.
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7. Linnaeus greatest contribution to science was:
a. Classification system and hierarchy
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8. Scientific discovery was greatly suppressed during the 1200s-1600s:
a. Darkages
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1. Darwin�s theory of evolution is:
a. one of the foundations of biology
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2. A dictionary definition of evolution is:
a. Change through time.
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3. Lamarck proposed:
a. theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics
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4. The uniformitarians viewed the earth as:
a. very old
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5. Darwin took quite a while to publish his ideas about evolution because
a. it was so controversial
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6. Species evolution by natural selection, according to Darwin, requires that:
a. individuals with unfavorable genes will die
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7. Intelligent Design is:
a. Universe too complex and cannot be explained by science.
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8. The clergy letter project is:
a. The Clergy Letter Project is an organization that has created and maintains a statement signed by American Christian clergy of different denominations rejecting creationism.
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1. If you want to see species variability, you should look at:
disease, bacteria, artificial
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2. The earth is approximately how old?
5 billion
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3. Plate tectonics describes the:
movement of continent
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4. The environments of major landmasses over the past hundreds of millions of years:
has changed
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5. Due to Continental Drift, India moved from:
africa to asia
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6. The �global conveyer� refers to:
Thermohaline circulation
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7. The currents of the surface waters in the oceans are primarily driven by:
wind
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8. A �rain shadow� is:
dry area on the lee side of the ocean
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1. Another name for the grassland biome is:
a. Steppe, prairie, plain
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2. The area used as the basis for defining a biome is:
a. Having specific climate with similar plants and animal adaptations.
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3. Water in the soil in tundra regions
a. Permafrost
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4. In which of these biomes would you expect to find the fewest trees?
a. Desert biome
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5. Which of these biomes is likely to have the largest percentage of its area covered by water?
a. Tropical Rainforest
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6. Grassland climates:
a. Similar to temperate and tropical
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7. The big pads on the lynx and snowshoe hare are
a. Adaptations to walking on snow (snow shoes)
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8. The spatial extent of each biome is primarily determined by:
a. Combination of temperature & rainfall (most important factors)
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1. Ecology is the study of:
a. How organisms interact with each other & their physical environment
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2. Ecosystems are often hard to study because:
a. Takes a long time to study, hard to design, results are often ambiguous, poor synthesis
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3. The �biotic� part of an environment is the:
a. Living part (biotic= �living� abiotic= �not living�)
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4. The �Principle of competitive Exclusion� predicts that:
a. Two species competing for the same resources cannot coexist if other ecological factors are constant.
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5. A species habitat may to thought of as its �____� and its niche as its �____�
a. �address� (it lives under rock) �profession� (physical factors & behavior)
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6. Abundant sunlight is necessary for a healthy coral system because
a. The seaweed and algae that grow on coral need sunlight.
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7. All ecosystems consist of ___& ___
a. Environment of its area + its organisms = ecosystem
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8. Of all the factors causing the disappearance of coral reefs worldwide; the most important is likely:
a. Pollution
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1. A population can be defined as:
a. Group of individuals of the same species that: 1. occupies a given area 2. Interacts and interbreeds
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2. Mathematical parameters in population models are used to:
a. Look critically at difference, explain predicted & observed
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3. The carrying capacity K is:
a. K= population size sustained by environment
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4.The population model that has a curve shaped like the letter "S" is known as the.
a.Idealized pattern
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5.The best examples of species that are current threats in Hawaii due to pop. Growth are:
a.Coqui frog and Miconia
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6. A pop. That is growing at an annual rate of 2% will double in size in __ years.
a. 35 years. Use the Rule of 70 (70/percent interest)
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7. The �Tragedy of Commons� describes the situation where:
a. Where multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen.
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8. If the control of a population�s size is �density dependent� it means that:
a. Resources are partitioned NOT shared
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1. Studying human ecology is similar to studying ___
a. Ecosystem studies
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2. Infant mortality in the USSR was solved by:
a. Faked the records to show deaths when they got older.
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3. Deserts are formed in arid regions by:
a. Extensive overgrazing, unwise agriculture practice, harvesting firewood.
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4. Farmlands in the US are:
a. 1.5 million acres are lost per year due to erosion & development.
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5. The US population is currently almost ___ & is predicted to double in ___ years
a. Jan 5 2005- 295,207,645 Double in 64 years
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6. The current total US immigration rate:
a. 1.15 million per year (850,000 legal + 300,000 illegal)
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7. The replacement fertility rate is:
a. The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime
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8. A population pyramid with a bulge out at the bottom indicates:
a. The population is rapidly growing
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1.The top three grass crops eaten by humans are:
a.Rice, wheat, corn
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2.Under nutrition refers to:
a.An individual who does not have enough food. Results in retardation. (not malnutrition)
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3.When did countries seriously begin to consider ending world hunger?
a.1943 (after WWII)
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4.The two continents that have the most unused land that is suitable for crops are:
a.Africa and South America
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5.World grain reserves such as for rice are:
a.Used cases of emergency famine. 140 tons total.
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6.Massive crop failures like the corn epidemic in 1970, are largely due to:
a.Farmers only used one type of corn. No diversity caused no resistance to disease.
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7.The impact of an explosive volcano on agricultural production:
a.Caused major food crisis in 1816. Caused lowest summer & spring temp. in 1816.
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8.If Hawaii was suddenly isolated from food imports it would:
a.We import 65% of our food. So we would not be able to sustain ourselves.
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