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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
(a) Organize the fossils.
(b) Recast the fossils.
(c) Transport the fossils.
(d) Study the fossils.

2. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?
(a) As an oddball.
(b) As crazy.
(c) As insane.
(d) As a lunatic.

3. Why is the Burgess Shale such an amazing find?
(a) It contains soft-bodied creatures.
(b) It contains no creatures.
(c) It contains five thousand creatures.
(d) It contains hard-bodied creatures.

4. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?
(a) From holding on to hard to his lessons.
(b) From spinning out of control.
(c) From underreaching.
(d) From overreaching.

5. What five new species did Morris find?
(a) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Maskinal, and Frutogenia.
(b) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Malaria.
(c) Nectocaris, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Hallucigenia.
(d) Fologenia, Maskinal, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, and Hallucigenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two Ps?

2. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

3. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

4. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

5. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?

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