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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Our universe is at least how many light-years wide?
(a) 5 trillion.
(b) 350 trillion.
(c) 50 million trillions.
(d) 100 billion.

3. Between 1980 and 2003, how many supernovas did the Reverend Robert Evans of Australia discover using a simple backyard telescope?
(a) 36.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 42.

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) 75 times the energy of all nuclear weapons on Earth.
(b) 7 times the energy of weapons found in a typical nuclear submarine.
(c) 50 times the energy released by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
(d) 3 times the energy emitted by a solar flare.

5. Invented in the 1930s, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have proven to be damaging to:
(a) Refrigerator production.
(b) Underground caves.
(c) The tourism industry.
(d) The ozone layer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What massive bone belonging to a dinosaur was found in New Jersey in 1789?

4. Continental drift refers to:

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

(see the answer key)

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