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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5,Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first eruption of Yellowstone took place how many years ago?
(a) 74 thousand.
(b) 19.7 billion.
(c) 630 thousand.
(d) 16.5 million.

2. In the 1960s, what did Bob Christiansen realize about Yellowstone National Park after observing NASA-supplied images?
(a) The park was carved by moving glaciers.
(b) The park holds thousands of volcanoes.
(c) Practically the whole park is a volcano.
(d) Most of the park was created by a massive earthquake.

3. When entomologist Terry Erwin collected insect samples from 19 rain forest trees, how many different varieties of beetles did he find?
(a) 600.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 150.
(d) 42.

4. What did Carl Linnaeus bring order to through his method of classification?
(a) Naming bodies of water.
(b) Naming features of the moon.
(c) The bacterial world.
(d) The plant world.

5. What did Carl Linnaeus develop that is still in wide use today?
(a) System for naming lunar features.
(b) Way to differentiate closely related bacteria.
(c) Method to unravel DNA codes.
(d) Binomial system of genus and species.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous scientist was once an unknown patent clerk in Switzerland?

2. In Chapter 23, the author discusses the battles that go on in the plant world regarding:

3. When did the last supervolcano erupt on Earth?

4. Who suggested that mass and energy are actually the same thing?

5. Vesto Slipher's work at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona led him to discover that distant stars are moving away from us, with the farthest stars moving the fastest, suggesting that the universe is:

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