ESS2 Quiz 2

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Across
  1. 3. The "Prophecy of Malthus" states that human populations grow ________.
  2. 5. The dominant trees on Rapa Nui were originally large ______ trees.
  3. 8. Recent archaeological evidence
  4. 10. By the time of Darwin's arrival, the ______ rat had largely out-competed the Polynesian rat on New Zealand.
  5. 13. The introduction of rats to New Zealand decimated endemic species of _______ birds.
  6. 16. The _____ Hypothesis regarding the collapse of the Rapanui civilization has largely been disproven.
  7. 17. The Hawaiian Islands are at the ______ tip of the Polynesian triangle.
Down
  1. 1. The main city of the Nabataeans was called ______.
  2. 2. The first Europeans arrived on Rapa Nui on ______, in the year 1722.
  3. 4. The native people of New Zealand are of ______ descent.
  4. 6. The native people of New Zealand are the ______.
  5. 7. The Maori call the Polynesian rat the ______.
  6. 9. The Nabataeans carved huge underground ______ to store water.
  7. 11. The Nabataean civilization lived in the _______ Desert.
  8. 12. that the Nabataean civilization collapsed due to a(n) _________.
  9. 14. The "Prophecy of Malthus states that the abundance of resources humans can produce grows _______.
  10. 15. Thor Heyerdahl incorrectly hypothesized that Polynesia was first settled by people from ______ America.