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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did humans become dispersed across the planet?
(a) Using canoes.
(b) Through a giant flood.
(c) Nobody knows for sure.
(d) Through continental drift.

2. Scientist Jean de Charpentier was a specialist on what?
(a) Glaciers.
(b) Volcanoes.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Tsunamis.

3. The author seems to condemn the fact that, over the years, studying wildlife meant what?
(a) Mere recreation for the wealthy.
(b) Nothing to the average person.
(c) Destroying the environment.
(d) Capturing and killing it.

4. At this time, how many plant and animal species are becoming extinct per week?
(a) 50 to 80.
(b) 600 to 1,000.
(c) 1 to 2.
(d) 100 to 200.

5. Humans share 98.4 percent of their DNA with:
(a) Chinchillas.
(b) Chimpanzees.
(c) Lemurs.
(d) Lions.

6. By volume, how much of the Earth's habitable space is covered by water?
(a) 80.5 percent.
(b) 87.75 percent.
(c) 71.75 percent.
(d) 99.5 percent.

7. Photosynthesis was developed during the early history of life on Earth by what?
(a) Flavobacteria.
(b) Xenobacteria.
(c) Magentobacteria.
(d) Cyanobacteria.

8. What must amino acids do to become protein?
(a) Link.
(b) Evolve.
(c) Split.
(d) Shrink.

9. Regarding species that have gone extinct, scientists generally:
(a) Attribute mass extinctions to volcanoes.
(b) Blame the extinction on climate changes.
(c) Do not know what killed off species.
(d) Know exactly how species died.

10. Who was the first person to describe a cell?
(a) Robert Hooke.
(b) Theodor Schwann.
(c) Van Leeuwenhoek.
(d) Matthias Jakob Schleiden.

11. In 1871, Lord Kelvin suggested that life on Earth started because of:
(a) Lightning striking pools of chemical "soup."
(b) "Seeds" from space arriving by way of a meteor.
(c) Droplets of water reacting with superheated rocks.
(d) Ash falling from volcanic eruptions.

12. Alan Thorne's multiregional hypothesis asserts that modern man evolved from:
(a) Seven families in seven regions across the globe.
(b) Ongoing movement between cultures and regions.
(c) Four primary regions in northern Asia.
(d) Three primary regions in Africa.

13. With so many hominid species existing in the past, why did only one survive?
(a) Greater capacity for compassion.
(b) Nobody knows.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Larger brain.

14. How deep is Earth's atmosphere?
(a) 30 miles.
(b) 800 miles.
(c) 120 miles.
(d) 5 miles.

15. How quickly can bacteria create a new generation?
(a) In forty years.
(b) In twenty years.
(c) Within ten minutes.
(d) Within five seconds.

Short Answer Questions

1. The skeleton "Lucy" found in Ethiopia in 1974 is thought to come from the hominid species:

2. Somewhere between three and two million years ago, how many hominid species co-existed before vanishing abruptly?

3. The author states that one scientist claimed there is less genetic diversity among the entire human population than there is among a:

4. Only one out of how many bones is ever fossilized?

5. Scientist Johann Friedrich Miescher is known for:

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