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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. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?

2. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?

3. Where were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?

4. From what university were psychologist who recruited undergraduate students for an experiment about perception?

5. Where did golden frogs lay their eggs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the Gola del Botttaccione?

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

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

7. What did the great auk look like?

8. What was Bd and how did it kill frogs?

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

10. What was Castello Aragonese?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The term extinction wasn't known until the 18th century. How did the scientist Cuvier determine through research that some animals were lost species?

Essay Topic 3

Isolation seems to threaten the diversity of a species. What are some causes of isolation that seem to threaten species? Why don't species just adapt in smaller numbers when isolated?

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