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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. In 1875, why was Max Planck advised against studying physics and urged to study math instead?
(a) The government often arrested those who delved in certain branches of physics.
(b) Planek knew high-level math but only very basic physics.
(c) A career in math offered greater financial opportunities for him.
(d) It was believed that all the important physics discoveries had already been made.

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

3. Approximately how many okapi live in the rain forests of Zaire?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 1,340,000.
(d) 12,000.

4. What followed the last supervolcanic eruption on Earth in the region that is now northern Sumatra?
(a) A six-year volcanic winter.
(b) Twenty years of intense earthquakes.
(c) A two-year series of tidal waves.
(d) A reversal of the magnetic poles.

5. According to Bryson, what percentage of all animal and plant life is yet to be discovered?
(a) 32.
(b) 97.
(c) 19.
(d) 54.

Short Answer Questions

1. Max Planck ignored those who urged him to avoid physics and ended up doing groundbreaking work on:

2. When did the last supervolcano erupt on Earth?

3. A caldera is a:

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. What did Carl Linnaeus develop that is still in wide use today?

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