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Graduate Take-Home Exam

  1. Select an important event in history for endangered species. Describe it. When did it occur? What brought it about? What were its results and implications? [300 words or fewer; 10 points]
In-Class Exam

  1. What year did the ESA become law? [2 points] Select two sections and describe the intent of each section. [4 points]

  2. How does ESA extend protection to imperiled species throughout the world? [3 points]

  3. Which advocate/scientist's work triggered a flood of environmental legislation in the 1960s and early 1970s? [3 points] What was the work about? [3 points]

  4. ESA could be abbreviated EEA. What would the middle "E" represent? [2 points] and how does the Act protect this "E"? [4 points]

  5. Two primary themes related to success in the job market emerged repeatedly during the professional panel. What were these two themes? [4 points]

  6. What organizations were represented by the professional panel? [4 points] For which of these organizations would you prefer to work? Why? [4 points]

  7. Briefly describe at least two shortcomings of the ecological footprint, as calculated by the most thorough online calculator we used in class. [4 points]

  8. Calculate the ecological footprint of the United States based on your knowledge of (1) human population on Earth, (2) proportion of planetary occupants who live in the United States, (3) consumption of resources by people in the United States, and (4) the concept of the ecological footprint. In your calculation, explicitly detail your knowledge of each of the four factors. Your final answer should indicate the number of planets necessary to support 6.4 billion people emulating people in the U.S. [10 points]

  9. What is a zero-infinity problem? In your response, provide an example. [3 points]

  10. What are the four distinct steps for TNC's conservation planning? [4 points] Describe specific actions taken with one of the steps. [3 points]

  11. List an example of a landscape-scale conservation plan in addition to TNC's ecoregional planning. [3 points]