View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 4. Completion and Codiication of an Argument: Naraoia and Aysheaia, 1977-1978..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Cilial types.
(b) Arthropod types.
(c) Mollusk types.
(d) Regenerative types.

2. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?
(a) The two Ps: primitive and precursor.
(b) The two Ps: polyanimate and precursor.
(c) The two Ds: decimation and destruction.
(d) The two Bs: barren and barinal.

3. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?
(a) Cataloging Marella splendens.
(b) Cataloging Opabinia.
(c) Dissecting Sanctocrabis.
(d) Monitoring Wiwaxia.

4. What did Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?
(a) Yohoia is in multiple systems.
(b) Yohoia does not fit anywhere.
(c) Yohoia is an unknown trilobite.
(d) Yohoia is a known arthropod.

5. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?
(a) Walcott.
(b) Sebastian.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Des Collins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of evidence concerning Opabinia is considered to be decisive?

2. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?

3. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?

4. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

5. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 212 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample