1. As a group, you and three other students must make a presentation on an animal. Which option is the best example of your group coming to a consensus on the presentation topic?(1 point)

A. A group member is selected as the team leader and the team leader chooses the presentation topic.

B. Each member gets a vote and the animal with the most votes will be the presentation topic.

C. The group writes options on slips of paper, puts them in a hat, and the paper that is selected will be the presentation topic.

D. The group cannot agree on what animal to choose so your teacher chooses your presentation topic.

2. Why might a paleontologist who works with fossils and an archaeologist who specializes if recovering human artifacts work together to determine where a fossil belongs in the hominid family tree?(1 point)

A. They both know how to remove objects carefully from the ground.

B. They both have different skills to help answer the question about ancient humans.

C. They both understand the relationship between fossils and early humans.

D. They both are experts on different types of bones.

3. Suppose a team of scientists has uncovered the site of an ancient city along a river. Which question could an anthropologist and archaeologist work together to help answer?(1 point)

A. Which plants did humans grow at this site and how were they grown?

B. How have humans impacted the rock layer of the city changed over time?

C. What tools were found at the site and which civilization used them?

D. How did changes in the depth of the river affect the houses people built at the site?

4. Insects are important to many ecosystems. For example, bees help pollinate many different plants and many animals rely on insects as food sources. Citizen science projects allow the public to work together with scientists by collecting observational data on many types of organisms such as plants, birds, or insects.

Which question could citizen science data answer that best illustrates insect population responses to climate change?
(1 point)

A. “What tree species provide the best habitat beetle species in this area?”

B. “What types of foods can butterflies eat?”

C. “How many dragonfly species are native to this region?”

D. “How does caterpillar abundance and distribution change over the year?”

5. Coral bleaching occurs when coral become stressed and expel the algae that they contain. According to scientists, what steps can society take to fix coral bleaching?(1 point)

A. Scientists have concluded that society can only fix coral bleaching by stopping climate change entirely.

B. Scientists have concluded that society can fix coral bleaching by reducing stressors, such as sedimentation and pollution, and limiting climate change.

C. Scientists have concluded that society can fix coral bleaching by reducing stressors, such as sedimentation and pollution.

D. Scientists have concluded that society can only fix coral bleaching by controlling ocean temperatures by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

They both have different skill sets but we can remove option A because all fossils are handled the same way. We can remove D because it doesn't make sense for the question which leaves us with C and B. This makes us know that the answer is B because it makes the most sense for the question.

Question 3:

An anthropologist is someone who specializes in the study of human societies and cultures and their development and an archaeologist is someone who digs up fossils. The only answer that makes sense here is C because the archaeologist can uncover the tools and where they made marks in the rock while an anthropologist can use those to discover what civilization it was and how those tools were used.

Question 4:

In the context of this question we can decide that the only relevant answer is D because it would watch over a period of time that could show climate change while the others are just simple facts that can be uncovered about the daily life of these insects.

Question 5:

The steps that can be taken to fix coral bleaching are to reduce stressors, such as sedimentation and pollution, and limiting climate change. This is because the main things that cause the coral to become bleached are changes in the temperature and salinity of the water. By polluting the ocean we change the chemical formula of the water and therefore affect the coral and the climate change heats the ocean to temperatures that the coral can't or will not be able to withstand.