The Anthropocene 2 (Week 10 Lecture 15) Flashcards
______ found in association with butchered horses (plus elephant and rhinoceros bones) in middle Pleistocene deposits.
Wooden spears
What 6 ways have humans impacted the world’s flora and fauna throughout history?
Tools (Hunting Fire (Ecosystem change) Domestication (Increase Food Supply) Transplantation (Biotic homogenization) Biocide (Pest Control) Conservation (Species maintenance)
The ______ hypothesis argues that humans were responsible for the Late Pleistocene extinction of megafauna in northern Eurasia and North and South America.
Overkill (blitzkrieg)
Who suggested ‘chronologicalandcausal link between the appearance of humans and the disappearance of many species of large mammals’.
Paul Martin
Short-Face Bear, Stag-Moose and Giant Beaver are examples of?
Post-colonial extinctions
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
True
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.
True
True or False: The hunting of large animals had no effect on small animals.
False, it did
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.
Dodo
______ once have been the most numerous bird on the planet and made up 30-40% of all North American birds.
The passenger pigeon
True or False: humans exploited the mass flocks of the passenger pigeon.
True
What was the first extinction we can time to the hour?
Passenger pigeon died in Cincinnati Zoo, September 14, 1914, 1 PM
What made the rocky mountain locust go extinct?
Ploughing of floodplain areas in western plainslikely destroyed their breeding habitat
eggplant, mango, jute, rice, banana, sugarcane belong to what crop hearth?
India/ SE Asia
wheat, onion, turnip, apple, fig, melon, alfalfa, pea, lentill belong to what crop heart?
Middle East
potato, pumpkin, tomato, runner bean / peanut, pineapple, tobacco belong to what crop heart?
Andes Brazil
maize, sweet potato, avocado, cotton, capsicum belong to what crop hearth?
Mesoamerica
cotton, soybeans belong to what crop hearth?
Pak-Afghanistan
Hemp and jute are known as what type of plant cultigen?
Fibre
Radiata pine is known as what type of plant cultigen?
Wood
Tulip and rose are known as what type of plant cultigen?
Ornamental
auroch cattle, rabbit, goose, reindeer
are part of what animal hearth?
Europe
llama, alpaca, guinea pig are part of what animal heart?
Andes
cat, dromedary are part of what animal hearth?
Middle Eastern
Prickly pear in Australia and Mediterranean;
starlings, pigeons and house sparrows in North America; bullfrogs in B.C. are known as ______ invasive species.
Delibrate
Brown rat (almost everywhere); knapweeds and cheatgrass in western North America; ballast stowaways (worldwide) are known as ______ invasive species.
Inadvertant
True or False: A Richmond, B.C., woman has been fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to importing 70 live Shanghai hairy crabs.
True
