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

2. Scientists are aware of at least how many galaxies in the universe?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 110 thousand.
(c) 90 trillion.
(d) 140 billion.

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

4. Who suggested that mass and energy are actually the same thing?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Joseph Lister.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carl Linnaeus bring order to through his method of classification?

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

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

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. Approximately how many okapi live in the rain forests of Zaire?

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