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Gombe Stream National Park - Quiz
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  • 1. In which district is Gombe National Park located?
A) Kigoma District
B) Dodoma District
C) Arusha District
D) Dar es Salaam District
  • 2. What was the former name of Gombe National Park?
A) Lake Tanganyika Park
B) Gombe Stream National Park
C) Tanganyika National Park
D) Chimpanzee Research Park
  • 3. Who pioneered behavioural research on chimpanzees at Gombe?
A) Richard Leakey
B) Jane Goodall
C) Dian Fossey
D) Louis Leakey
  • 4. What is the size of Gombe National Park in square kilometers?
A) 50 km²
B) 100 km²
C) 200 km²
D) 35 km²
  • 5. Which type of habitat is NOT found in Gombe National Park?
A) Tropical rainforest
B) Grassland
C) Desert
D) Woodland
  • 6. How can one access Gombe National Park?
A) By train
B) By car
C) By foot
D) By boat
  • 7. Which primate species is known to hybridize in Gombe National Park?
A) Red-tailed monkeys and blue monkeys
B) Olive baboons and red colobus
C) Colobus and vervet monkeys
D) Chimpanzees and baboons
  • 8. What is the primary predator of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park?
A) Leopard
B) Crocodile
C) Hyena
D) Lion
  • 9. How many different bird species are found in Gombe National Park?
A) 50
B) 100
C) 300
D) Around 200
  • 10. Which primate did Jane Goodall observe using tools for termite fishing?
A) Colobus monkey
B) Vervet monkey
C) Chimpanzee
D) Baboon
  • 11. What year did Jane Goodall first travel to Tanzania for her research?
A) 1960
B) 1955
C) 1980
D) 1970
  • 12. Which anthropologist supported Jane Goodall's research at Gombe?
A) Stephen Jay Gould
B) Carl Sagan
C) Louis Leakey
D) Richard Dawkins
  • 13. What was one of the two long-standing beliefs challenged by Goodall's research?
A) Chimpanzees are solitary animals
B) Only humans could construct and use tools
C) Primates cannot communicate
D) All primates are herbivores
  • 14. What aggressive behavior did Goodall observe in chimpanzees?
A) Building nests for shelter
B) Playing games with humans
C) Systematically hunting and eating smaller primates
D) Sharing food with other species
  • 15. What did Goodall name the chimpanzees she observed?
A) She numbered them
B) She gave them names like Fifi and David Greybeard
C) She used scientific Latin names
D) She left them unnamed
  • 16. What did Goodall's research suggest about chimpanzee behavior?
A) Chimpanzees have unique and individual personalities
B) Chimpanzees do not exhibit emotions
C) Chimpanzees cannot form social bonds
D) Chimpanzees are identical in personality
  • 17. What did Goodall observe that indicated chimpanzees have mental traits similar to humans?
A) Reasoned thought, abstraction, generalization
B) Absence of communication skills
C) Inability to learn from experience
D) Lack of social structure
  • 18. What did Goodall find about the hunting behavior of chimpanzees?
A) Chimps avoid hunting due to fear
B) Chimps only hunt for sport, not food
C) Chimps kill and eat as much as one-third of the colobus population each year
D) Chimps never hunt other primates
  • 19. What did Goodall discover about dominant female chimpanzees?
A) They protect all young in their troop
B) They deliberately kill the young of other females to maintain dominance
C) They share food equally among all members
D) They avoid conflict with other females
  • 20. In what year was the Gombe Stream Research Centre (GSRC) established?
A) 1980
B) 1967
C) 1990
D) 1975
  • 21. How long has the field study at Gombe been ongoing?
A) 45 years
B) Over 60 years
C) 50 years
D) 30 years
  • 22. What aspect of chimpanzee life does Goodall's research aid in designing?
A) Agricultural expansion projects
B) Urban development plans
C) Improved design for new protected areas
D) Industrial facilities
  • 23. What percentage of Tanzania is set aside in parks and reserves?
A) 75%
B) 50%
C) 10%
D) 25%
  • 24. What exacerbates the demand for hunting wildlife?
A) Poverty
B) Technological advancements
C) Urbanization
D) Tourism
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