Question: Prey that is eaten is simply replaced by anohter when the population is close to what?
Answer: carrying capacity

Question: Predators lower what aspects of their prey?
Answer: survival and fecundity

Question: What physical disadvantages do humans have against other apex predators?
Answer: speed, bone density, weight, and physical strength

Question: For how long have humans been using stone tools and weapons?
Answer: well over a million years

Question: What are humans' primary competitors?
Answer: other humans

Question: What is one known istance of cannibalism?
Answer: the Donner party

Question: With what species do humans hunt in partnership?
Answer: domestic dog

Question: What two apex predators do not have a small population size?
Answer: humans and dogs

Question: Do apex predators generally have a large or small population?
Answer: small

Question: Which principle states that if two species ecologicl niches/ overlap, both species are likely to be in competition with one another?
Answer: competitive exclusion principle

Question: What other factor is relevant to the competitive exclusion principle?
Answer: prey abundance

Question: When a predator hunts too much of its prey, causing both populations to dissappear, the phenomenon is called what?
Answer: coextinction

Question: Are predator's effects on prey easiest to see in the short-term or long-term?
Answer: longer period of time

Question: The rise and fall of predator and prey populations are similar to what, in the US economy?
Answer: boom and bust cycle of economics

Question: How can natural predators benefit crops?
Answer: reducing damage to crops, and are one alternative to the use of chemical agents such as pesticides

Question: How are predators beneficial to agriculture?
Answer: controlling pests

Question: If removing an introduced species entirely isn't a posibility, what is the next best outcome?
Answer: keeping its abundance down

Question: Predators are used in conservation to reduce what type of species from the environment?
Answer: introduced species

Question: Captain America, Thor and Ultron all inhabit what fictional milieu?
Answer: Marvel Universe

Question: Fictional placements within this setting are modeled off what?
Answer: real-life cities

Question: Spiderman's fictional city is based off what real American location?
Answer: New York

Question: What Marvel character's stories are set in an area resembling the American Southwest?
Answer: Hulk

Question: Which two groups of Marvel crimefighters are based in a fictional version of New York City?
Answer: the Fantastic Four, the Avengers

Question: Who originally founded Marvel Comics?
Answer: Martin Goodman

Question: What was the original name of Marvel Comics?
Answer: Timely Publications

Question: When was Marvel founded?
Answer: 1939

Question: In what city was Marvel based when it was founded?
Answer: New York City

Question: What was Abraham Goodman's official title when Marvel was founded?
Answer: publisher

Question: What was the cover date on Marvel Comics #1?
Answer: Oct. 1939

Question: Who was Marvel/Timely's first true full-time editor?
Answer: Joe Simon

Question: Besides Simon, who co-created Captain America?
Answer: Jack Kirby

Question: What is the name of the character created by Carl Burgos?
Answer: the Human Torch

Question: In what issue was Namor, The Sub-Mariner introduced?
Answer: Marvel Comics #1

Question: What cartoon humorist did some high profile stories for Marvel in the early years?
Answer: Basil Wolverton

Question: What was the name of the humorous feature penned by Wolverton?
Answer: "Powerhouse Pepper"

Question: What duo of kid-themed characters were featured in early Marvel issues?
Answer: Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal

Question: What early Marvel character may have been envisioned as a female counterpoint to Captain America?
Answer: Miss America

Question: The most popular early Marvel heroes were collectively and colloquially known as what?
Answer: "big three"

Question: Marvel Comics was part of many entities having what relationship with Timely?
Answer: shell companies

Question: When were all of Goodman's comic entities officially put under the moniker of Marvel Comics?
Answer: 1961

Question: By what other name were some Marvel-related comic books published?
Answer: "A Marvel Magazine"

Question: Under what handle were Marvel's detective fiction comics published?
Answer: Marvel Mystery Comics

Question: Which writer and artist was behind the Sub-Mariner?
Answer: Bill Everett

Question: What was Marvel's major offshoot with Westerns, war stories, and monster comics called?
Answer: Atlas

Question: What was Dan DeCarlo's spooky but humorous comic aimed at kids called?
Answer: Homer the Happy Ghost

Question: DeCarlo also penned a knock-off of what teen comic superstar?
Answer: Archie Andrews

Question: What was the name of DeCarlo's main character in his humorous teen series?
Answer: Homer Hooper

Question: Marvel's first team of superheroes was known by what alliterative name?
Answer: The Fantastic Four

Question: What was the issue date when this superhero team debuted?
Answer: Nov. 1961

Question: What Marvel executive helped change the focus of Marvel's stories and characters?
Answer: Stan Lee

Question: In the Marvel Universe, the public treated conferred what response on the Fantastic Four?
Answer: celebrity status

Question: What is Marvel's best-selling comic?
Answer: The Amazing Spider-Man

Question: Who joined with Stan Lee in creating the Fantastic Four?
Answer: Jack Kirby

Question: What historic era did the Fantastic Four initially inhabit?
Answer: Cold War

Question: What traditional superhero element did the Fantastic Four initially do without?
Answer: costumes

Question: None of the Fantastic Four had what hidden element so common to other superheroes?
Answer: secret identities

Question: The emphasis on relatable settings and character motivations in Marvel's 1960s comics is called what?
Answer: "superheroes in the real world"

Question: What magazine featured two Marvel Characters in a college campus heroes feature?
Answer: Esquire

Question: What two Marvel characters were part of that campus heroes section?
Answer: Spider-Man and the Hulk

Question: Which publisher is Marvel's biggest rival?
Answer: DC Comics

Question: Writer Geoff Boucher compared DC to what dull 1960s crooner?
Answer: Pat Boone

Question: What two real life persons were also part of the magazine feature alongside fictional Marvel characters?
Answer: John F. Kennedy and Bob Dylan

Question: What actual US cities have fictional equivalents in Marvel's comic milieu?
Answer: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago

Question: What Marvel hero is related to a tiny insect?
Answer: Ant-Man

Question: The shared milieu inhabited by all Marvel heroes and villains is known as?
Answer: the Marvel Universe

Question: Which two comic book titles were the precursors to the widening of this overall setting?
Answer: Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four

Question: How many comics did Marvel sell during 1968?
Answer: 50 million

Question: What company was distributing Marvel's titles at that point?
Answer: Independent News

Question: To whom was Marvel sold in 1968?
Answer: the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation

Question: What wholly-owned affiliate of this company did Marvel operate within?
Answer: Magazine Management Company

Question: What distributor took over Marvel's titles in 1969?
Answer: Curtis Circulation Company

Question: What government agency asked Marvel to do a series of stories to publicize an issue?
Answer: United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Question: What issue was Marvel asked to tackle for this agency?
Answer: drug abuse

Question: What comic book series did stories related to this issue appear in?
Answer: Spider-Man

Question: What industry censorship and standards organization tried to block publication of this series?
Answer: Comics Code Authority