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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During the end-Permian extinction, how much did scientists theorize the seas warmed?
(a) 50 degrees.
(b) 20 degrees.
(c) 18 degrees.
(d) 70 degrees.

3. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?
(a) Chile.
(b) Galapagos Islands.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Montevideo.

4. Where was the Icelandic Institute of Natural History located?
(a) Reykjavik.
(b) Njarovik.
(c) Kopavogur.
(d) Akuyeyri.

5. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 15th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 17th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?

2. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?

3. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?

4. How many species of army ants were found in the tropics?

5. When was the breeding season for auks?

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