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Question 1: This made many species susceptible to hunting (it is thought, for example, that ________ were hunted to extinction in a few short generations) and to predation by introduced species.
DeinotheriumWoolly mammothMegalaniaMoa

Question 2: Islands, due to their isolation, are home to many of the world's endemic species, as well as important breeding grounds for ________ and some marine mammals.
PenguinPelecaniformesSeabirdProcellariiformes

Question 3: It began on Cuvier Island, where ecologists removed stock, goats, ________ and finally, in 1993, Pacific Rats.
Dirofilaria immitisRabiesFeral catOnychectomy

Question 4: More importantly, island species are often ecologically naive, that is they have not evolved, or have lost appropriate behavioural responses to ________.
PredationHerbivoreCarnivoreApex predator

Question 5: In the Pacific poison intended for rats was taken by land ________ instead; the crabs were not affected by the poison but frustrated attempts to clear the rats.
LobsterSea urchinCrabCrab fisheries

Question 6: One estimate of birds in the ________ islands puts the extinctions at 2000 species.
Pacific OceanAtlantic OceanArctic OceanIndian Ocean

Question 7: The ecological restoration of islands, or island restoration, is the application of the principles of ________ to islands and island groups.
Conservation biologyRestoration ecologyNatureBiodiversity

Question 8: Island groups such as New Zealand and ________ have undergone substantial extinctions and losses of habitat.
AlaskaHawaiiFloridaUnited States

Question 9: The reduction in seabirds, in turn, had effects on the ________ of the islands, as many of the plants were dependent on the guano from nesting birds acting as a fertilizer.
EcologyEcosystemBiologyBotany

Question 10: This introduction decimated the birds of the chain, particularly ________ like the Whiskered Auklet.
ProcellariiformesPenguinPelecaniformesSeabird
















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