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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Uncertainty Principle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hubble discovered other galaxies, in what direction were they moving?
(a) Away from earth.
(b) Towards earth.
(c) Towards each other.
(d) Away from each other.

2. Who developed the uncertainty principle?
(a) Werner Heisenberg.
(b) Marie Curie.
(c) Max Plank.
(d) Stephen Hawking.

3. In what year did Edwin Hubble discover galaxies outside of our own?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1942.

4. Galileo found the moons of what planet using his telescope?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Mars.

5. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?
(a) Because it gives room for the existence of other worlds.
(b) Because it gives room for the Biblical account of creation.
(c) Because it gives room for the existence of God.
(d) Because it gives room for the existence of heaven and hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?

2. Philosophers try to understand the universe using what method?

3. The only constant in the universe is what?

4. Scientists start their understanding of the universe with what?

5. Scientists try to create explanations for the way the universe works that always do what?

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