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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2000.

2. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?
(a) Spring peppers.
(b) Sandhill frog.
(c) Tree frogs.
(d) Wood frog.

3. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Russia.
(d) China.

4. How long after the author read an article about the five great mass extinctions that had occurred on the earth did she book a plane to Panama?
(a) About a week.
(b) 4 days.
(c) Few days.
(d) 6 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Acropora millepora spawned, how many sperm were in each egg-sperm bundle?

2. From what country were Norway rats from?

3. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?

4. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?

5. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?

(see the answer key)

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