A Short History of Nearly Everything Quiz Questions | Quiz: Part 5, Chapter 20 to Part 5, Chapter 24

Quiz: Part 5, Chapter 20 to Part 5, Chapter 24

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What are eukarya?
a) Salt-tolerant single-celled organisms.
b) Carbon-trapping rocks.
c) Bacteria that live on clouds.
d) Organisms with nucleated cells.

2. Approximately how many bacteria live on a square centimeter of human skin?
a) 350.
b) 7,500.
c) 100,000.
d) 4,000,000.

3. Most human body cells live how long?
a) 25 years.
b) 38 weeks.
c) Less than a month.
d) 2 days.

4. The Burgess Shale Formation, containing tens of thousands of fossils of soft-bodied creatures preserved by a mudslide, was found where?
a) Brazil.
b) Japan.
c) Kenya.
d) Canada.

5. Bacteria take nitrogen from the air and form it into what? (read more)