1) Known as the founder of modern geology and the originator of uniformitarianism a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 2) Known for his theory that population growth will outpace food production, leading to resource scarcity and potentially catastrophic consequences a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 3) French naturalist who proposed a theory of evolution based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics. a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 4) Known for his INFLUENTIAL work on uniformitarianism a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 5) Believed that traits developed during an organism's lifetime (like a giraffe stretching its neck to reach high leaves) could be passed on to its offspring, causing evolution to occur. a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 6) Proposed that the Earth's geological features were formed gradually over long periods of time by natural processes, rather than through sudden cataclysms. a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 7) Argued that population grows exponentially (geometrically) while food production increases only arithmetically. a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 8) His theory of uniformitarianism or uniformitarianism, was crucial in understanding the Earth's history and also influenced Darwin's theory of evolution. a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 9) His principles of Geology (1830-1833) popularized this idea and provided a foundation for understanding Earth's history and the timescale necessary for evolutionary processes. a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus 10) While his specific mechanism for inheritance is now understood to be incorrect, his work was a crucial step in the development of evolutionary thought. a) James Hutton b) Charles Lyell c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d) Thomas Malthus

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