The Sixth Extinction Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Elizabeth Kolbert
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Sixth Extinction Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Elizabeth Kolbert
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. When Lyell's work was printed in a first run, how many copies were printed?
(a) 1,600.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 300.
(d) 45,000.

2. How old was Darwin when the voyage on the HMS "Beagle" ended?
(a) 28.
(b) 24.
(c) 26.
(d) 27.

3. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 3/8.
(d) 1/3.

4. What was Zalasiewicz's speciality?
(a) Trace fossils.
(b) Coprolites.
(c) Graptolites.
(d) Ammonites.

5. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 45 percent.
(c) 65 percent.
(d) 35 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did students begin returning from trips to Sierra Nevada empty-handed?

2. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?

3. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?

4. In 1984, where were grains of shocked quartz found in a layer of clay?

5. How long did the uniformitarian account of extinction hold up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center located and what does it look like?

2. What did the author see as she swam toward volcanic vents off Castello Aragonese?

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

4. How difficult was it to find graptolites at Dob's Linn?

5. How did Hall-Spencer work until he was able to get funding for his research?

6. When and how did it appear that the American mastodon became extinct?

7. Where were the first mastodon bones found that were studied?

8. Why didn't Charles Lyell believe in catastrophism?

9. Where and how did extinction emerge as an idea?

10. How did Lyell and Darwin view extinction?

(see the answer keys)

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