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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 tree plots had Silman established to study climate change in the tropics?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

2. What was Zalasiewicz's speciality?
(a) Graptolites.
(b) Ammonites.
(c) Trace fossils.
(d) Coprolites.

3. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?
(a) T.
(b) M.
(c) L.
(d) V.

4. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1867.

5. What size was a skeleton discovered west of Buenos Aires?
(a) 9 feet long and 9 feet high.
(b) 15 feet long and 7 feet high.
(c) 10 feet long and 8 feet high.
(d) 12 feet long and 6 feet high.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?

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

3. Who was credited with having put the term "biological diversity" into general circulation?

4. When an Australian researcher broke apart a volleyball-sized chunk of coral, how many polychaete worms did he find?

5. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?

(see the answer key)

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