Quiz Guide: Sixth Extinction Chapter 1
Quiz will be five questions plus essay. I will best four answers out of five plus essay--20 points each.
- Describe one image of the golden frog marked to tourists in El Valle de Anton.
- Specifically, how did biologists try to save the frogs when they started to disappear?
- Identify and describe one previous "mass extinction."
- Describe an interesting occupant of EVACC.
- Why do you think the author fears to sound "weak-minded" when she describes the frogs?
- What's an interesting detail about Edgardo Griffith?
- Why were knowledgable people skeptical about disappearing frogs at first?
- What are some ways frogs care(d) for their eggs?
- Are frogs genetically similar to each other? Explain.
- What is bd and where was its connection to the death of amphibians first noticed?
- Why do you think the author found the frog display case "awfully sad"?
- Until recently, what was the "background extinction" rate?
- In what way has "herpetology" come to resemble "paleontology"?
- What groups are becoming extinct at rapid rates now?
- Explain either the "out of Africa" or the "frog-leg soup" hypothesis on the spread of Bd.
- What did the author describe as "Rule No. 1" of rainforest safety?
- Why doesn't Griffith swab the Panamanian robber frogs?
- Why do you think the chapter ends the way it does?
Short Essay:
- Apply a term you learned last week to the reading and explain the relationship between the two. If your term isn't good, look through some of the others.