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

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

3. What organisms does the author say are the most enduring inhabitants of our planet?
(a) Bacteria.
(b) Fungi.
(c) Humans.
(d) Spiders.

4. What are eukarya?
(a) Bacteria that live on clouds.
(b) Carbon-trapping rocks.
(c) Salt-tolerant single-celled organisms.
(d) Organisms with nucleated cells.

5. Before Charles Darwin wrote his famous book about natural selection, he spent eight years writing about what?
(a) Grass types.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Barnacles.
(d) Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Compared to Homo sapiens, Neanderthals were:

2. Most human body cells live how long?

3. Each cell of the human body contains what length of DNA?

4. Trilobites are fossils of what?

5. What is a biped?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are scientific discoveries challenging the understanding of human evolution?

2. What does the author say about radioactive waste being dumped into oceans?

3. Describe the fossilized traces of microbes found in Greenland.

4. What is the water distribution across the world's major oceans?

5. Throughout the history of Earth, what are some of the causes of different species going extinct?

6. Describe the presence of bacteria in humans.

7. Describe what happened when the KT meteor crashed on Earth, killing off the dinosaurs.

8. What is a hominid? Describe some of the hominids that existed in the past.

9. What are cyanobacteria? How did they affect the environment billions of years ago?

10. What does the author say about oxygen and the highest elevations people can live at?

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