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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Before dawn.
(d) Around dusk.

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

3. How big was each of Silman's tree plots?
(a) 3 acres.
(b) 2 1/2 acres.
(c) 1 acre.
(d) 3 1/2 acres.

4. According to the Geological Society of America, how much land had people directly transformed?
(a) About 27 million square miles.
(b) About 5 million square acres.
(c) About 45 million square acres.
(d) About 35 million square acres.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?

2. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?

3. How close to Australia was One Tree Island?

4. When the Alvarezes published their hypothesis, how many sites did they know of where the iridium layer was exposed?

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

(see the answer key)

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