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LEARNING ASSESSMENT POSTVIEW EXERCISE

Revise your responses in Table 1 based on what you saw in the film. After completing the table, answer questions 6–11 (and 12–14 if assigned by your instructor). Table 1. Preview and postview exercise for The Guide. Preview

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1. Yellowstone is an 898,317-ha (3,468sq.-mi.) national park in Wyoming (U.S.). There are over 6,500 national parks in countries around the world. Describe two reasons for establishing national parks.

Species needed protection/ a lot of species were going extinct To protect natural areas

To help raise money for the community around the park. To protect natural areas/ecosystems

2 a. The film you will watch is about a national park in Mozambique, a country in Africa. Describe what you think might be different about a national park in Mozambique and one in the United States.

I believe the one in Mozambique will of course have a lot of different animals, but also different rules for those visiting

This park appears to be raising a lot of money for the community around it as well.

2 b. What might be the same about a national park in Mozambique and one in the U.S.?

I believe both will have rules in place for those visiting as well as park rangers to help enforce these rules/take care of animals

That there are tour guides/people who work in the park to help conserve it/teach others about species there.

3. Describe what you think a national park tour guide’s role is.

I believe a tour guide’s role would be to help educate those touring as well as help enforce the rules of the park.

To learn about the species there and teach others. To also have a good relationship with the community the park is located with so that compromises can be made that are good for the park but also the people that live there. This can also mean being bilingual so you can communicate with a lot of people.

4. Describe what you think a national park biologist’s role is.

I believe a national park biologist’s rule would be to monitor the plants and animals there and make sure the conditions are both suitable and ensure that they remain as healthy as possible

A national park biologist’s role may be conduct research to determine what species are living in the area/estimate their population.

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5. Describe an argument a person might make against the establishment of a national park.

People may believe the land is “needed for more important things”

If that land is needed for something such as crops/general human expansion.

6. Which of the following actions would decrease biodiversity in a protected land like Gorongosa National Park? A. Increasing sizes of human populations. B. Increasing sizes of populations of small animals like insects and amphibians. C. Decreasing pollution like acid precipitation. D. Decreasing the amount of poaching of large animals. 7. List three human activities that have negatively affected biodiversity in Gorongosa National Park. Overhunting, a civil war, deforestation. 8. In the film, Dr. E. O. Wilson and Tonga Torcida help the local children conduct a bioblitz in a small section of Gorongosa National Park. What is the purpose of a bioblitz? The purpose of a bioblitz is to search for every kind of species within a certain radius. 9. From 1977 to 1992 there was a civil war in Mozambique. Figure 1 shows the number of large animals in Gorongosa before and after the civil war. Study the graph and answer questions a – c. a. Describe in general what happened to these animal populations from 1972 to 2000. The populations of every animals in the graph dropped drastically, while the smallest numbers were around 500, now all of them are even lower. b. State the estimated number of wildebeest that lived in Gorongosa before the war. After the war? Before the war there were around 6,500 wildebeest, after there are less than 100. c. Using evidence from the graph, which animal population was most affected by the war? What evidence can you cite from the film that might have led to the decline of Figure 1. Numbers of large animals living in this particular animal species relative to the other Gorongosa National Park before (1972)er and aft species? The animal population that was most affected (2000)the civil war.

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by the war I believe were the buffalo. Before their population was close to 14000, and now it looks to be less than 250.

Figure 2. A simplified illustration of the water cycle in Gorongosa National Park.

10. Use the diagram to explain why destruction of the rain forest on Mount Gorongosa would result in a shortage of accumulated water in the park. The destruction of the rainforest on Mount Gorongosa would result in an accumulation of water in the park because the trees are not absorbing the water so there is more runoff going down the mountain, which could flood the park. 11. Since the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992, many animal population sizes have changed. Estimated population sizes for a few of the large animals in the park are included in Table 2 below. Table 2. Some large animal species population estimates in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, in 1972 before the civil war began. Estimates were made again in 2000, eight years after the war ended, and also in 2014. 2000 estimates 1972 estimates (postwar) 2014 estimates (prewar) Species African

buffalo

14,000

100

500

Blue

wildebeest

6,500

20

400

2,500

200

400

Elephant

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Hippo Lichtenstein hartebeest Lion Sable

antelope Waterbuck Zebra

3,500

100

200

800

100

300

200

No

data

30

700

100

500

3,500

300

6,000

3,500

20

40

a. Describe in general how the animal population sizes have changed since the year 2000. Since 2000 all of the populations have grown, many have doubled but some have even more than doubled.

b. Of the species listed, which park species appears to have made the greatest recovery in population size?

The park species that appears to have made the greatest recovery are either the

waterbuck, or the blue wildebeest.

EXTENSION/CRITICAL THINKING 12. List three human activities that have negatively affected biodiversity in your (city, region, country). Urbanization, overhunting/exploitation, pollution 13. If you and your classmates conducted a bioblitz like the one in the film, but in the area around your school, list 10 species that you think you might find: Stink bugs, cardinals, blue jays, grey squirrel, wasps, rabbits, ants, pill bugs, daddy-long legs, garden snakes 14. Certain animals such as zebra, lion, and wildebeest were reintroduced in the park after the war, but others were not. Based on what you’ve learned, why do some animal populations have to be reintroduced ? Some animal populations have to be reintroduced because they are either no longer living in a certain area, or were taken out of an area until it became suitable to live in again and then they were reintroduced once the habitat became suitable for living again. While not relevant, I thought it was cute when Tonga called E.O. Wilson a “living library”.

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