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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI-XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far was it to walk from the research station on One Tree to DK-13?
(a) About 1 1/2 miles.
(b) 1/2 mile.
(c) 1/4 mile.
(d) About a mile.

2. How many different species might be involved in building a coral reef?
(a) 35.
(b) 50.
(c) 500.
(d) 100.

3. In Chapter 9, by official count, how many species of birds were there in the Amazon?
(a) 1,300.
(b) 250.
(c) 500.
(d) 750.

4. When Acropora millepora spawned, how many sperm were in each egg-sperm bundle?
(a) 150.
(b) 100s.
(c) 1,000s.
(d) 75.

5. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?
(a) Myxocene.
(b) Cenozoic.
(c) Homogenocene.
(d) Catastrophozoic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?

2. When did Lyell visit Big Bone Lick and purchase teeth of a baby mastodon?

3. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?

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

5. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?

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