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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?

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

3. When was the last auk killed?

4. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?

5. What color eyes does Kolbert's guide have who shows her around Dob's Linn?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did it seem logical that Walter Alvarez became a scientist?

7. What was the Gola del Botttaccione?

8. What deforested Easter Island and how was that conclusion derived?

9. How did Lyell and Darwin view extinction?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A new name was proposed for the epoch of humans. What was the new name proposed and why was it more appropriate than other names that were considered?

Essay Topic 2

Darwin believed natural selection determined which species survived or became extinct. What exactly was natural selection and how was it supposed to work in determining which species survived and which became extinct?

Essay Topic 3

The Birnam Wood scenario speculated that climate change would cause trees to move upslope. How would climate change cause trees to move from a lower elevation to a higher elevation and why was that significant?

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