Exam 1 Study Guide
ENVS 4950 Environmental Studies Capstone Seminar, Spring
2019, O'Donnell
last updated: March 3,
2019
Exam date: Wednesday,
March 6, 2019
This exam counts for 15%
of the final grade.
Exam Guidelines and
Format
The exam will present
you with a choice of 10 identification prompts--significant quotes, terms or
phrases, proper nouns--which will in turn be drawn from 17 prompts listed
below.
Out of the 10 prompts on
the exam, you will in turn choose 8, for each of which you will write a
"mini essay" -- that is, three or four clear, complete,
self-explanatory sentences -- in which you identify 1) the context or
definition; 2) the author(s) and text(s) with which prompt is associated; 3) an
important issue associated with the prompt.
Please note that, while
you may write practice responses ahead of time, I require you to compose your
prompts on the spot, during the exam, rather than copying pre-composed
responses directly from your notes.
17 Prompts (10 of these will appear on the exam)
1.
chytrid fungus
2.
great auk
3.
K-T boundary
4.
Anthropocene epoch
5.
ocean acidification
6.
latitudinal diversity gradient
7.
Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project
8.
"The New Pangea"
9.
overkill hypothesis
10.
The Leopold Report
11.
"'The message we got from above was basically, Don't go into it if you can
help it.'"
12.
"As the historian Polly Welst Kaufman has written, the earlier generation
of rangers resented the intrusion of 'pansy-pickers' and 'butterfly
chasers.'"
13.
The Jakobshavn ice sheet (or Jakobshavn Glacier or Ilulissat Glacier)
14.
"the new harpoon"
15.
the chicken microbiome
16.
grain-fed beef
17.
conservation reliance