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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) 1978.
(b) Late 1970s.
(c) 1964.
(d) Early 1970s.

2. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?
(a) Sandhill frog.
(b) Spring peppers.
(c) Tree frogs.
(d) Wood frog.

3. Where did golden frogs lay their eggs?
(a) Shallow caves near creeks.
(b) Shallow running water.
(c) River banks.
(d) Sand dunes.

4. From what country were Norway rats from?
(a) China.
(b) Norway.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Japan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many illustrations of species were in "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy"?

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

3. According to Paul Crutzen, how much of the earth had been transformed by human activity?

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

5. When did a volcanic eruption force the entire population of Ischia to take refuge on Castello Aragonese?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Charles Lyell become a scientist?

2. When and how did it appear that the American mastodon became extinct?

3. What does the town of El Valle De Anton look like?

4. Where were the Panamanian golden frogs housed, when it was discovered they were dying?

5. What did Cuvier do at the Paris Museum of Natural History?

6. How were the frogs protected at the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center?

7. What did Charles Darwin do when he finished Cambridge?

8. In Chapter 5, what rocks did Luis Alvarez study and what did he learn?

9. Where had Bd spread?

10. How did Luis Alvarez solve the debate over whether there were treasure-filled chambers inside Egypt's second-largest pyramid?

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