Question
An Oscar-shortlisted 2014 documentary named for this mountain range follows Emmanuel de Merode’s fight to protect its biodiversity from oil interests and the M23 rebellion. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this East African volcano chain that contains Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park and a namesake national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These mountains include Mount Karisimbi and Mount Nyiragongo.
ANSWER: Virunga Mountains [accept Virunga National Park] (Virunga National Park was the first national park in Africa.)
[10e] The Virunga Mountains and Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are home to the only populations of this great ape’s “mountain” subspecies, which Dian Fossey studied at Rwanda’s Karisoke Research Center.
ANSWER: gorillas [accept mountain gorillas] (Virunga National Park claims to be the only protected area on Earth home to three great ape taxa: the eastern chimpanzee, the mountain gorilla, and the eastern lowland gorilla.)
[10m] Conflict and oil exploration in the Virunga Mountains has driven this process, leading to the formation of mountain gorilla metapopulations impacted by increased edge effects.
ANSWER: habitat fragmentation
<Other>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 10.00 | 78% | 22% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 88% | 0% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Binghamton | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell C | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |