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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) A territory of British Columbia.
(d) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.

2. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Few.
(b) Several.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) None.

3. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?
(a) The Precambrian Era.
(b) The Cambrian Era.
(c) The Prestige Era.
(d) The Mesozoic Era.

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

5. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Historical Limitation.
(b) Progressive Development.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Theopathsis.

Short Answer Questions

1. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

2. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

3. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?

4. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

5. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

(see the answer key)

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