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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an extremophile?
(a) A scientist who studies climate extremes.
(b) An organism adapted to living in extreme conditions.
(c) An extremely large living organism.
(d) A researcher who explores extremely isolated regions.

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

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

4. In 1994, scientists observed as the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter. One particular comet fragment struck the planet with a force of six million megatons, which is equivalent to approximately what?
(a) 50 times the energy released by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
(b) 75 times the energy of all nuclear weapons on Earth.
(c) 3 times the energy emitted by a solar flare.
(d) 7 times the energy of weapons found in a typical nuclear submarine.

5. The British astronomer Martin Rees hypothesizes that there could be an infinite number of what?
(a) Subatomic particles.
(b) Electromagnetic frequencies.
(c) Speeds of light.
(d) Different universes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The strongest earthquake ever recorded was measured off the coast of Chile in 1960. What did it measure on the Richter scale?

2. What organization opposed geologist Clair Patterson and his campaign?

3. Only one out of how many bones is ever fossilized?

4. Plate tectonics refers to:

5. According to the Reverend William Buckland, the biblical reference to "in the beginning" with regards to the formation of Earth could refer to:

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