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Week 1: Intro
Week 2: Energy & Ecology
Week 3: Dynamics & Bugs
Week 4: Agriculture
Miscellaneous
100
Q3: Select all of the following which are ecosystem services

Wool, lady bug pest mgmt, genetic resources, wild game

100

Q10: Select all of the following items which comprise a typical forest community in Michigan 

a. Trees
c. Insects
e. Soil
f. Deer

100

Q53: If we increased the number of Samurai Wasps (parasitoid wasps) in the Stinkbug-Apple Community, what would happen to apple populations in this community after the trophic cascade? 

increase, the samurai wasps kill stink bugs, decreasing their populations. As a result, apples experience less herbivory, and succeed better. That means more apples.

100

Q74: Which social issue was exacerbated by the spread of the Green Revolution to agricultural systems in Mexico? 

Obesity

100

Name a celebrity who has dated Jennifer Lawrence

many answers
200

Q5: The Flint Water Crisis is a great example of ____________ .

Environmental Injustice

200

Q18: Which of the following is kinetic energy/contains kinetic energy? 

a. Electricity
c. Electricity stored in a charged battery falling at 30 km/h
 

200

Q57: How are some human-defined populations artificial, and how do they obscure reality? 

Sometimes we make populations based on human boundaries, like state lines, which nature doesn't respect. Cutting off the population of BMSB in Michigan obscures the fact that this population def continues into Indiana. Controlling BMSB in MI requires monitoring/control in Indiana as well. 
200

Q78: T/F: Monocultures, large-scale industrialized plantings of single crop species, are prohibited under USDA Certified Organic regulations.

False

200

What movie won the academy award for best picture in 2022?

Coda

300

Q4: Which of the following is NOT an example of the Appeal to Tradition logical fallacy? 

"The NSA can't be spying on Americans, my daddy works for the NSA and he said they'd NEVER do that!"

300

Q19: Which of the following is potential energy/contains potential energy?
 

Everything but the flying rubberband

300

Q64: Insect legs and wings are always attached to which body segment?

Thorax

300

Q84: Describe the pest status of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug in Michigan apple orchards (both severity and damage type)

Occasional direct pest.

300

At which famous battle was Napoleon finally defeated by a coalition army including the British?

Waterloo

400

Q8:  Pick one of the “non-science forms of figuring out truth” Pote discussed in class. Explain why this form of learning about the natural world is inferior to scientific discovery. 

Variable

400

Q29: Energy is lost between trophic levels, and as a result, 100 calories of meat
requires _________ calories of plant matter to create 

~600

400

Q67: Why are six legs advantageous compared to 2 or 4?

Tripods baby

400

Q91: List and describe four consequences of chemical management

Direct effects, runoff, pest resurgence, pesticide resistance

400
Apple Computers was founded by two men named Steve. Name them both!

Jobs and Wozniak

500

Q9: What were George Washington’s dentures made out of? How does the story of George Washington’s dentures relate to the Elephant-Rider analogy?

he had multiple dentures, one was made from the teeth of slaves. Our emotional attachment to historical figures may cause us to reject verifiable truth about those figures. The elephant is in charge, regardless of the science.
500

Q36: The combined biomass of the producers in a meadow ecosystem is 1200 kilograms. What would you expect the biomass of the fifth-order consumers to be? 

0

500

Q66: Why are insects so successful? 

adaptable bodies, evolutionary time advantages, reproduction (r-selected), unique development?

500

Q99: For each of the descriptions below, select whether the description applies to Organic
agriculture, organic agriculture, or conventional agriculture. 

variable

500

Which Valorant character, commonly used in promotional material for the game, utilizes the power of wind and has knives as their ultimate ability?

Altair-Ezio-Conner-Edward- Shay-Arno-Evie/Jacob