6. Marine Conservation

Protected Areas — Quiz

Test your understanding of protected areas with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

Which group serves as the control in a Before–After–Control–Impact (BACI) design for assessing MPA effectiveness?

Question 2

Which graph-theoretic centrality metric measures how quickly a node can interact with all others based on the sum of shortest path lengths?

Question 3

In a top-down governance model for MPAs, who holds the primary decision-making authority?

Question 4

Which design principle ensures MPAs are sufficiently large to maintain ecological processes and viable populations over time?

Question 5

In graph-theoretic design of MPA networks, which centrality metric measures the extent to which a site lies on shortest paths between other sites?