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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many elements occur naturally on Earth?
(a) 12.
(b) 92.
(c) 52.
(d) 142.
2. Species appear to exist, on average, how long?
(a) 780 thousand years.
(b) 9 billion years.
(c) 12 thousand years.
(d) 4 million years.
3. What did Carl Linnaeus develop that is still in wide use today?
(a) Method to unravel DNA codes.
(b) System for naming lunar features.
(c) Binomial system of genus and species.
(d) Way to differentiate closely related bacteria.
4. In times past, Earth was:
(a) More hospitable.
(b) Smaller.
(c) Less hospitable.
(d) Flatter.
5. What helped scientists start accepting the idea of ice ages?
(a) An analysis of Siberian winters.
(b) A scientific evaluation of changing weather patterns.
(c) An exploration of Antarctica.
(d) A scientific expedition to Greenland.
Short Answer Questions
1. The Burgess Shale Formation, containing tens of thousands of fossils of soft-bodied creatures preserved by a mudslide, was found where?
2. Most human body cells live how long?
3. Only one out of how many bones is ever fossilized?
4. Alan Thorne's multiregional hypothesis asserts that modern man evolved from:
5. At this time, how many plant and animal species are becoming extinct per week?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Bryson caution regarding extinction?
2. Why does Bryson say that fossils represent only a tiny fraction of life on Earth?
3. How many elements occur naturally on Earth? How many are central to life?
4. How long do human cells live?
5. What are cyanobacteria? How did they affect the environment billions of years ago?
6. Describe the Indonesian volcanic eruption of 1815.
7. What did Charles Darwin do on the HMS Beagle?
8. Describe the layer of atmosphere called the troposphere.
9. How do ice ages begin?
10. What type of scientific work did the monk and scientist Gregor Mendel do?
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