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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. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?

2. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?

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

4. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and how did extinction emerge as an idea?

2. What did the great auk look like?

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

4. What were graptolites?

5. Why didn't Charles Lyell believe in catastrophism?

6. Where had Bd spread?

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

8. How did the creatures collected by Hall-Spencer and Buia reveal the destructive effect of the volcanic vents?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oceans appeared to be becoming more acidic. What were the consequences of acidity in oceans and what implications did that have for future?

Essay Topic 2

The great auk became extinct in the 19th century. What were the causes that made the bird extinct and were they preventable?

Essay Topic 3

Scientists speculate about the future of the earth and humans and a Sixth Extinction. Was a Sixth Extinction inevitable or were there ways that a Sixth Extinction could be averted?

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