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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. Most human body cells live how long?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 38 weeks.
(d) Less than a month.
2. A Swedish DNA study concludes that all modern humans descended from how many people in Africa?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 10,000.
3. Bryson states that the first species to care for its weak and frail members was:
(a) Gigantopithecus.
(b) Homo erectus.
(c) Australopithecines.
(d) Homo habilis.
4. Scientists now believe that life began on Earth how long ago?
(a) 6.25 thousand years.
(b) 7.35 trillion years.
(c) 5.75 million years.
(d) 3.85 billion years.
5. What percentage of all existing water is fresh water?
(a) 10.
(b) 17.
(c) 23.
(d) 3.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is not one of the five major extinction episodes on Earth?
2. How did humans become dispersed across the planet?
3. Each cell of the human body contains what length of DNA?
4. The oldest record of life found so far consists of fossilized traces of microbes discovered where?
5. The author states that one scientist claimed there is less genetic diversity among the entire human population than there is among a:
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Indonesian volcanic eruption of 1815.
2. Describe what happened when the KT meteor crashed on Earth, killing off the dinosaurs.
3. How do ice ages begin?
4. Why does Bryson say that fossils represent only a tiny fraction of life on Earth?
5. What does Bryson caution regarding extinction?
6. Throughout the history of Earth, what are some of the causes of different species going extinct?
7. What is Carl Linnaeus known for?
8. How long do human cells live?
9. What does the author say about bacteria and humans, particularly their interaction?
10. What did scientists find in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia?
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