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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 tall were adult auks?
(a) 4 feet tall.
(b) 1 1/2 feet tall.
(c) About 3 feet tall.
(d) More than 2 1/2 feet tall.

2. What cyclone added a ridge on One Tree Island in March 2009?
(a) Hamish.
(b) Arlene.
(c) Jose.
(d) Rina.

3. In a cave in Vermont, how many bat corpses piled up on the ground after they were affected by "Geomyces destructans"?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) 350.
(c) 450.
(d) Thousands.

4. How many hooks would Armannsson have on his line when he fished for cod?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 450.
(d) 350.

5. From a single species of tree, how many species of beetles had entomologist Terry Erwin collected?
(a) 789.
(b) 950.
(c) 814.
(d) 1,045.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Geological Society of America, how much land had people directly transformed?

2. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?

3. How many people lived in Biosphere 2 for two years?

4. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?

5. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?

(see the answer key)

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