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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. What components were central to the apparatus that Henry Cavendish used to determine the density of Earth?
(a) Boiling water, a tub, and a barrel.
(b) Weights, counter-weights, and pendulums.
(c) Chutes and slides.
(d) A burner, gases, and switches.

2. Through the examples provided about Thomas Midgley's inventions, what is the author trying to say about science?
(a) Science can better our lives but used unwisely it can be dangerous to the planet.
(b) Pursuing scientific avenues is always justified, regardless of outcome.
(c) Science is the cause of all our modern ills.
(d) Without science, we would still be living in caveman days in primitive dwellings.

3. What campaign did geologist Clair Patterson take on?
(a) Fortifying milk with vitamin D.
(b) Removing lead additives from gasoline.
(c) Removing chlorine from swimming pools.
(d) Adding fluoride to drinking water.

4. Astronomer Edmond Halley believed that the distance from the Earth to the sun could be deduced from the:
(a) Transits of Venus.
(b) Position of Mars.
(c) Distance to the moon.
(d) Size of solar flares.

5. Anders Celsius, who designed the Celsius thermometer, was an:
(a) Artist.
(b) Astronomer.
(c) Architect.
(d) Engineer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Halley believed that once scientists figured out the distance from the sun to the Earth, they could then calculate what?

4. After noticing an unusual phenomenon with uranium salts and a photographic plate, Henri Becquerel asked one of his graduate students to investigate the matter. Who was this student?

5. What is found at the very center of the Earth?

(see the answer key)

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