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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French Compte de Buffon claim about the New World (the Americas) compared to the known Old World?
(a) Everything was smaller and inferior in the New World.
(b) Unusual, enormous species would be found in the New World.
(c) Diseases of the New World would be much more deadly than in the Old World.
(d) The New World was much more fertile than the old.

2. What massive bone belonging to a dinosaur was found in New Jersey in 1789?
(a) Thighbone.
(b) Collarbone.
(c) Shoulder blade.
(d) Hipbone.

3. The fact that Pluto has a moon was not discovered until:
(a) 1978.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1965.

4. What are so small that the dot on the letter "i" could hold 5 billion of them?
(a) Quarks.
(b) Protons.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Bacteria.

5. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:
(a) Polar ice caps do not melt.
(b) There are no polar bears in Antarctica.
(c) Seashell fossils are found on mountaintops.
(d) The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1700s, people were finding holes in theories. For example, if the thoughts on erosion were completely correct, then:

2. James Hutton believed that the natural forces forming the geology of Earth are:

3. After noticing an unusual phenomenon with uranium salts and a photographic plate, Henri Becquerel asked one of his graduate students to investigate the matter. Who was this student?

4. According to Einstein's theories, what is the nature of space?

5. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?

(see the answer key)

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