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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acres of untouched rainforest were inside Reserve 1202?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 75.

2. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1883.

3. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2002.

4. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?
(a) Austrian Geological Society.
(b) American Geophysical Union.
(c) Aberdeen Geological Survey.
(d) British Geological Survey.

5. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?

2. According to American naturalists, Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer, how many species did they discover that lived in association with "Eciton burchellii" army ants?

3. In 1916, how many Japanese beetles were discovered near Riverton, New Jersey?

4. How many hooks would Armannsson have on his line when he fished for cod?

5. When Europeans first landed on an island in Newfoundland, how many auk was it estimated were there?

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