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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 the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?
(a) Chile.
(b) Peru.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Ecuador.

2. What was the modern day name for the island where explorers once found auks?
(a) Funk Island.
(b) Byrd Island.
(c) Fowl Island.
(d) Penguin Island.

3. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?
(a) Just over 7,000.
(b) About 5,000.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 4,500.

4. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?
(a) 40 out of 51.
(b) 15 out of 18.
(c) 32 out 38.
(d) 21 out of 22.

5. How long a line did Armannsson use when he fished for cod?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 1,000 feet.
(c) 10,000 feet.
(d) 6 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the golden-frogs in Sante Fe, effectively wiped out?

2. What color was the La Loma robber frog?

3. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?

4. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where was the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center located and what does it look like?

3. How did Hall-Spencer work until he was able to get funding for his research?

4. How difficult was it to find graptolites at Dob's Linn?

5. How did Charles Lyell become a scientist?

6. What did the author see as she swam toward volcanic vents off Castello Aragonese?

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

8. Where had Bd spread?

9. Why did Luis Alvarez believe that iridium would help to clock the clay at Gubbio?

10. How did Lyell and Darwin view extinction?

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