Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 4. Completion and Codiication of an Argument: Naraoia and Aysheaia, 1977-1978..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

2. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Opabinia.
(b) Marrella.
(c) Goroia.
(d) Splendens.

3. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?
(a) Begins work on Yohoia.
(b) Ends work on Yohoia.
(c) Begins his monograph on Opabinia.
(d) Finishes his monograph on Wiwaxia.

4. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?
(a) Any species or phyla.
(b) Any known group of vertebrates.
(c) Any taxonomic genus.
(d) Any known group of arthropods.

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(b) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(c) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(d) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

2. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?

3. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

4. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

5. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

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