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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Had the universe formed just slightly differently:
(a) Our solar system would have ten times more planets.
(b) Mankind would not exist.
(c) Earth would have seven moons.
(d) Planets would be flat instead of round.

2. What happened to the dinosaur bone discovered in New Jersey in 1789?
(a) It is on permanent display at the Smithsonian.
(b) It was sold to a museum in England.
(c) It had been permanently misplaced.
(d) It is part of a wealthy family's private collection.

3. Richard Owen coined the term paleontology as the study of prehistoric life forms and called the giant animals dinosaurian, meaning:
(a) Enormous creature.
(b) Ancient animal.
(c) Terrible lizard.
(d) Large reptile.

4. In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering radioactivity?
(a) Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
(b) Marie Curie and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
(c) Louise Désirée Lorieux, Jean Becquerel, and Henri Becquerel.
(d) René Just Haüy and Jean Becquerel.

5. What components were central to the apparatus that Henry Cavendish used to determine the density of Earth?
(a) A burner, gases, and switches.
(b) Chutes and slides.
(c) Weights, counter-weights, and pendulums.
(d) Boiling water, a tub, and a barrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. About how many stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth?

3. The Geiger counter is a:

4. A hundred years before Einstein's math analyses confirmed the existence of atoms, this self-educated scientist suggested everything is made up of tiny, unchangeable particles:

5. Many scientists suspect that Pluto is just a comet of the:

(see the answer key)

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