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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Robert Fitzroy?
(a) Head of the HMS Beagle Laboratory.
(b) Darwin's theology professor.
(c) Darwin's first cousin and fellow naturalist.
(d) Captain of the HMS Beagle.

2. Photosynthesis was developed during the early history of life on Earth by what?
(a) Cyanobacteria.
(b) Flavobacteria.
(c) Magentobacteria.
(d) Xenobacteria.

3. Many scientists suspect that Pluto is just a comet of the:
(a) Neptunian Belt.
(b) Kuiper Belt.
(c) Solar Belt.
(d) Orion Belt.

4. 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) Science is the cause of all our modern ills.
(c) Without science, we would still be living in caveman days in primitive dwellings.
(d) Pursuing scientific avenues is always justified, regardless of outcome.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While he worked at General Motors Research Corporation in 1921, engineer Thomas Midgley, Jr. developed what dangerous gasoline additive?

2. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?

3. Plate tectonics refers to:

4. The author mentions the case of bacteria surviving for two years in a sealed camera lens where?

5. According to the Caltech physicist Richard Feynman, the most important discovery ever made is what?

(see the answer key)

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