Charles Lyell Career Life! Trivia Questions Quiz
Sir Charles Lyell 1st Bonnets is best known as the author of Principles of Geology. He's Scottish and a citizen of the United Kingdom, he spent many years in and out of expensive private schools but was said to prefer wandering and learning from his father He received 3 medals including the Royal, Copley and Wollaston Medals. He and his works Influenced Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Thomas Henry Huxley, Roderick Impey Murchison, Joseph Dalton Hooker
- 1.
In what year did Lyell work as a lawyer?- A.
1830
- B.
1820
- C.
1824
- D.
1826
- 2.
How many manuscript did Lyell leave?
- A.
Nearly 300
- B.
About 500
- C.
Nearly 250
- D.
About 150
- 3.
What was the first book he wrote?
- A.
Principles of Geology
- B.
Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man
- C.
Geometric Evidence of natural Abundance
- D.
Principles of Geology and Man
- 4.
Which book established Lyell as an important geological theorist?
- A.
Principles of Geology
- B.
Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man
- C.
Geology and Man
- D.
From the caves to the plains
- 5.
Which of these books propounded the laws of Uniformaterianism?
- A.
Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man
- B.
Principles of Geology
- C.
From the caves to the plains
- D.
None
- 6.
What was the central argument of "Principles of Geology?
- A.
Unevenness of Plains
- B.
The present is key to the past
- C.
The consequences of the past
- D.
The distribution of natural resources
- 7.
Lyell's interpretation of geological change as the steady accumulation of minute changes over enormously long spans of time was a powerful influence on which of these scientist?
- A.
Robert Hooke
- B.
Charles Darwin
- C.
Robert Fitzroy
- D.
James Huton
- 8.
Which of these ideas explained the diversity and territory of species?
- A.
Organic Evolution
- B.
Seas and lands
- C.
Centres of Creation
- D.
Partitions by quakes and seas
- 9.
Which Darwins idea supported to Lyell's Uniformitarianism?
- A.
Man's Evolution
- B.
Formation of atolls
- C.
Genetics
- D.
Formation of Magma
- 10.
Upon which publication did Lyell finally offered a tepid endorsement of evolution?
- A.
Student's Elements of Geology
- B.
On the origin of Species
- C.
Organic Evolution
- D.
None
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