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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many scientists suspect that Pluto is just a comet of the:
(a) Neptunian Belt.
(b) Solar Belt.
(c) Orion Belt.
(d) Kuiper Belt.

2. What organization opposed geologist Clair Patterson and his campaign?
(a) American Dairy Association.
(b) American Petroleum Institute.
(c) Swimming Pool Safety Institute.
(d) American Academy of Pediatrics.

3. Who postponed his honeymoon in order to write a scientific paper about the movements of electrons?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

4. Compared to at sea level, oxygen at a few thousand feet above sea level is:
(a) More plentiful.
(b) Purer.
(c) Heavier.
(d) Thinner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not part of an atom?

2. According to the Caltech physicist Richard Feynman, the most important discovery ever made is what?

3. Species appear to exist, on average, how long?

4. Scientists assumed stromatolites were extinct until they were discovered where in 1961?

5. Mitochondria convert food and oxygen into ATP, which is what?

(see the answer key)

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