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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. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?
(a) Brown.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) University of California-Berkeley.
2. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?
(a) China.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Russia.
3. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1998.
4. Who first proposed that there had been five great mass extinctions during the history of life on Earth?
(a) Wake and Vredenburg.
(b) Andrews and Pierson.
(c) Smythe and Brandenburg.
(d) Roberts and Whitman.
5. When were the first mastodon bones discovered that were subjected to scientific study?
(a) 1739.
(b) 1716.
(c) 1746.
(d) 1751.
Short Answer Questions
1. On which edge of Castello Aragonese were the waters more or less unaffected by the vents?
2. How long after the author read an article about the five great mass extinctions that had occurred on the earth did she book a plane to Panama?
3. How long a line did Armannsson use when he fished for cod?
4. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?
5. Where was Dob's Linn located?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the Gola del Botttaccione?
2. How did the creatures collected by Hall-Spencer and Buia reveal the destructive effect of the volcanic vents?
3. What did the great auk look like?
4. How difficult was it to find graptolites at Dob's Linn?
5. What were the frogs like that Darwin discovered in Chile?
6. Where were the first mastodon bones found that were studied?
7. How were the frogs protected at the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center?
8. In Chapter 5, what rocks did Luis Alvarez study and what did he learn?
9. What did Charles Darwin do when he finished Cambridge?
10. Where and how did extinction emerge as an idea?
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