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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many species of native trees were found in Vermont?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 45.

2. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) York.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Oxford.

3. Where was the first clue discovered as to what was killing off frogs around the world?
(a) National Zoo in Washington D.C.
(b) Scientific expedition to Chile.
(c) San Diego Zoo.
(d) Scientific expedition to Brazil.

4. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?
(a) 8.
(b) 11.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many average-sized mice could be killed by the poison in the skin of one golden-frog?

2. When did Captain James Cook encounter the Great Barrier Reef?

3. Where was the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?

4. In the 1970s, how many species of birds were discovered to live on One Tree?

5. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?

(see the answer key)

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