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Pygmy Mammoth: Quiz

  
  

Question 1: M. exilis should not be confused with the mammoths of ________ or Saint Paul Island, which were small races of the woolly mammoth (M. primigenius) and which died out around 1700 B.C.
Veliky NovgorodWrangel IslandRussiaIrkutsk

Question 2: ________ indicates M. exilis existed on the island for at least 47,000 years prior (which is the approximate limit of the dating method).
Radiometric datingIsotope geochemistryGeologic time scaleRadiocarbon dating

Question 3: The late Pleistocene elephant may have lived on the islands until the arrival of the ________ during the early Holocene, between 10,800 and 11,300 years ago.
Santa Barbara, CaliforniaChumash peopleLos AngelesVentura, California

Question 4: The Pygmy or Channel Islands Mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) is an extinct species of ________ descended from the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi).
Insular dwarfismCyprus Dwarf ElephantMediterranean SeaDwarf elephant
















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