EEB 2100 UConn Final Exam
Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Overexplotation
Answer: overharvesting natural resources faster than their
replacement
is a main cause of biodiversity loss
2. Overexploitation-Cod Fishing
Answer: Atlantic Cod fishery is depleted by
1920's tech- nological advances such as diesel engines that allow for
larger boats
3. Georges Bank
Answer: Inundated, highly productive island where the Gulf
,Stream caus- es upwellings of nutrients as they are removed from the
bottom of water bodies
Largest source of fish for Europe, and then the America's from 1500-
1900's
4. Fish landings(Ships) in tons
Answer: Increase during times of more effort to
get fish;the great acceleration.
Ultimately crashes in 1992 because Atlantic Cod population becomes so
depleted.
Cod population has never rebounded, this is due to either changes in
ecology(food web) or evolution
,5. Fishing down the food web
Answer: Fishing for large, apex predators first (e.g
Tuna). Then fishing smaller and smaller as the apex predators get
over fished
6. Overhunting megafaunal extinctions(Bison)
Answer: Large scale extinctions of
large mammal species
Population reduced from 50 million to 500 due to ecological trap that
makes them easy to kill with guns
Now subject to genetic bottleneck because so low populations have
reduced genetic variation and adaptability
2 /
, 7. Overhunting Government Sponsorship
Answer: Bounties placed on gray
wolfs in North America as late as 1965, $20-50 per wolf
Last wolf of Connecticut killed in Pomfret
8. Tragedy of the Commons
Answer: Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons- When
consumers maximize their gain on shared resources they destroy those
resources
Self interested customers deplete a shared resource
9. Tragedy of the Commons Origin
Answer: Towns have common greens which
were originally a place townspeople could keep their cattle
Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Overexplotation
Answer: overharvesting natural resources faster than their
replacement
is a main cause of biodiversity loss
2. Overexploitation-Cod Fishing
Answer: Atlantic Cod fishery is depleted by
1920's tech- nological advances such as diesel engines that allow for
larger boats
3. Georges Bank
Answer: Inundated, highly productive island where the Gulf
,Stream caus- es upwellings of nutrients as they are removed from the
bottom of water bodies
Largest source of fish for Europe, and then the America's from 1500-
1900's
4. Fish landings(Ships) in tons
Answer: Increase during times of more effort to
get fish;the great acceleration.
Ultimately crashes in 1992 because Atlantic Cod population becomes so
depleted.
Cod population has never rebounded, this is due to either changes in
ecology(food web) or evolution
,5. Fishing down the food web
Answer: Fishing for large, apex predators first (e.g
Tuna). Then fishing smaller and smaller as the apex predators get
over fished
6. Overhunting megafaunal extinctions(Bison)
Answer: Large scale extinctions of
large mammal species
Population reduced from 50 million to 500 due to ecological trap that
makes them easy to kill with guns
Now subject to genetic bottleneck because so low populations have
reduced genetic variation and adaptability
2 /
, 7. Overhunting Government Sponsorship
Answer: Bounties placed on gray
wolfs in North America as late as 1965, $20-50 per wolf
Last wolf of Connecticut killed in Pomfret
8. Tragedy of the Commons
Answer: Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons- When
consumers maximize their gain on shared resources they destroy those
resources
Self interested customers deplete a shared resource
9. Tragedy of the Commons Origin
Answer: Towns have common greens which
were originally a place townspeople could keep their cattle
