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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5,Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Carl Linnaeus develop that is still in wide use today?
(a) Method to unravel DNA codes.
(b) Binomial system of genus and species.
(c) System for naming lunar features.
(d) Way to differentiate closely related bacteria.

3. When did the last supervolcano erupt on Earth?
(a) 23,000 years ago.
(b) 74,000 years ago.
(c) 9,000 years ago.
(d) 1,100 years ago.

4. In Chapter 23, the author discusses the battles that go on in the plant world regarding:
(a) Using plants for medicinal purposes.
(b) What to name plants.
(c) Who owns plant patents.
(d) Funding for plant research.

5. Which famous scientist was once an unknown patent clerk in Switzerland?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Joseph Lister.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Thomas Edison.

Short Answer Questions

1. When entomologist Terry Erwin collected insect samples from 19 rain forest trees, how many different varieties of beetles did he find?

2. A caldera is a:

3. In 1875, why was Max Planck advised against studying physics and urged to study math instead?

4. Vesto Slipher's work at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona led him to discover that distant stars are moving away from us, with the farthest stars moving the fastest, suggesting that the universe is:

5. In the 1960s, what did Bob Christiansen realize about Yellowstone National Park after observing NASA-supplied images?

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