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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Scientists start their understanding of the universe with what?
(a) Observations and mathematics.
(b) Observations.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) A theory.
2. What is one of the varieties of quarks?
(a) Odd.
(b) Strange.
(c) Quirky.
(d) Random.
3. A black hole has zero what?
(a) Volume and surface area.
(b) Mass.
(c) Curvature.
(d) Expansion.
4. When Hubble discovered other galaxies, in what direction were they moving?
(a) Towards each other.
(b) Away from earth.
(c) Towards earth.
(d) Away from each other.
5. Aristotle thought that the Earth was what?
(a) In orbit around the sun.
(b) Stationary.
(c) Bigger than the sun.
(d) Its own galaxy.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many quarks make up a proton or neutron?
2. Light moves along what sort of lines?
3. Who demonstrated that an atom is made up of electrons orbiting a nucleus made up of protons?
4. Who said, "God does not play dice."
5. Who published a paper on Brownian motion in 1905?
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