A Short History of Nearly Everything Test | Final Test - Medium

Bill Bryson
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A Short History of Nearly Everything Test | Final Test - Medium

Bill Bryson
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did humans become dispersed across the planet?
(a) Through a giant flood.
(b) Through continental drift.
(c) Using canoes.
(d) Nobody knows for sure.

2. Before Charles Darwin wrote his famous book about natural selection, he spent eight years writing about what?
(a) Barnacles.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Grass types.

3. When the KT meteor that killed the dinosaurs hit Earth, what percentage of life on the planet perished?
(a) 40.
(b) 15.
(c) 95.
(d) 70.

4. What organisms does the author say are the most enduring inhabitants of our planet?
(a) Humans.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Fungi.
(d) Bacteria.

5. What did Carl Linnaeus bring order to through his method of classification?
(a) Naming bodies of water.
(b) The plant world.
(c) The bacterial world.
(d) Naming features of the moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. At this time, how many plant and animal species are becoming extinct per week?

2. In Chapter 23, the author discusses the battles that go on in the plant world regarding:

3. Regarding species that have gone extinct, scientists generally:

4. The author seems to condemn the fact that, over the years, studying wildlife meant what?

5. Which of the following is not one of the five major extinction episodes on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did scientists find in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia?

2. How many elements occur naturally on Earth? How many are central to life?

3. Describe the presence of bacteria in humans.

4. What does the author lament about the study of wildlife throughout much of human history?

5. What does the author say about radioactive waste being dumped into oceans?

6. What is Carl Linnaeus known for?

7. Why does Bryson say that fossils represent only a tiny fraction of life on Earth?

8. What does the author say about bacteria and humans, particularly their interaction?

9. How are scientific discoveries challenging the understanding of human evolution?

10. How do ice ages begin?

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