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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The troposphere is the layer of atmosphere:
(a) That is coldest.
(b) Farthest away.
(c) Just above the highest clouds.
(d) Closest to the ground.

2. If Earth did not have an atmosphere, it would be what?
(a) Boiling hot.
(b) Dark.
(c) Extremely windy.
(d) Frozen.

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

4. What is the highest elevation that humans are able to live and survive on Earth continuously without special accommodations?
(a) 18,000 feet.
(b) 14,000 feet.
(c) 27,000 feet.
(d) 22,000 feet.

5. Sir Isaac Newton wrote "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," which explains his laws of what?
(a) Quantum physics.
(b) Electromagnetic interference.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Motion and gravity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Today, scientists know that radiation in high doses is:

2. Astronomer Edmond Halley approached mathematician Sir Isaac Newton to get his help figuring out why planets:

3. The strongest earthquake ever recorded was measured off the coast of Chile in 1960. What did it measure on the Richter scale?

4. When radiation was first discovered, people thought it must have:

5. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:

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