The Anthropocene 2 (Week 10 Lecture 15)

Question 1

______ found in association with butchered horses (plus elephant and rhinoceros bones) in middle Pleistocene deposits.

Answer 1

Wooden spears

Question 2

What 6 ways have humans impacted the world’s flora and fauna throughout history?

Answer 2

Tools (Hunting
Fire (Ecosystem change)
Domestication (Increase Food Supply)
Transplantation (Biotic homogenization)
Biocide (Pest Control)
Conservation (Species maintenance)

Question 3

The ______ hypothesis argues that humans were responsible for the Late Pleistocene extinction of megafauna in northern Eurasia and North and South America.

Answer 3

Overkill (blitzkrieg)

Question 4

Who suggested ‘chronologicalandcausal link between the appearance of humans and the disappearance of many species of large mammals’.

Answer 4

Paul Martin

Question 5

Short-Face Bear, Stag-Moose and Giant Beaver are examples of?

Answer 5

Post-colonial extinctions

Question 6

True or False: When ancestors of native Americans entered North America about 14,000 years ago they encountered a large number of large mammal species

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False: The ancestral Indians, also called Paleo-Indians, hunted the large mammals like mammoths, giant bison, ground sloths to the point of extinction.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or False: The hunting of large animals had no effect on small animals.

Answer 8

False, it did

Question 9

The ______ was A giant flightless pigeon restricted to the island of Mauritius and sailors butchered them for food, and feral animals (rats, cats and pigs) destroyed their nests.

Answer 9

Dodo

Question 10

______ once have been the most numerous bird on the planet and made up 30-40% of all North American birds.

Answer 10

The passenger pigeon

Question 11

True or False: humans exploited the mass flocks of the passenger pigeon.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What was the first extinction we can time to the hour?

Answer 12

Passenger pigeon died in Cincinnati Zoo, September 14, 1914, 1 PM

Question 13

What made the rocky mountain locust go extinct?

Answer 13

Ploughing of floodplain areas in western plainslikely destroyed their breeding habitat

Question 14

eggplant, mango, jute, rice, banana, sugarcane belong to what crop hearth?

Answer 14

India/ SE Asia

Question 15

wheat, onion, turnip, apple, fig, melon, alfalfa, pea, lentill belong to what crop heart?

Answer 15

Middle East

Question 16

potato, pumpkin, tomato, runner bean / peanut, pineapple, tobacco belong to what crop heart?

Answer 16

Andes Brazil

Question 17

maize, sweet potato, avocado, cotton, capsicum belong to what crop hearth?

Answer 17

Mesoamerica

Question 18

cotton, soybeans belong to what crop hearth?

Answer 18

Pak-Afghanistan

Question 19

Hemp and jute are known as what type of plant cultigen?

Answer 19

Fibre

Question 20

Radiata pine is known as what type of plant cultigen?

Answer 20

Wood

Question 21

Tulip and rose are known as what type of plant cultigen?

Answer 21

Ornamental

Question 22

auroch cattle, rabbit, goose, reindeer

are part of what animal hearth?

Answer 22

Europe

Question 23

llama, alpaca, guinea pig are part of what animal heart?

Answer 23

Andes

Question 24

cat, dromedary are part of what animal hearth?

Answer 24

Middle Eastern

Question 25

Prickly pear in Australia and Mediterranean;

starlings, pigeons and house sparrows in North America; bullfrogs in B.C. are known as ______ invasive species.

Answer 25

Delibrate

Question 26

Brown rat (almost everywhere); knapweeds and cheatgrass in western North America; ballast stowaways (worldwide) are known as ______ invasive species.

Answer 26

Inadvertant

Question 27

True or False: A Richmond, B.C., woman has been fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to importing 70 live Shanghai hairy crabs.

Answer 27

True