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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a major geological era?
(a) Mesozoic.
(b) Paleozoic.
(c) Precambrian.
(d) Precolumbian.

2. When was the Big Bang Theory first proposed?
(a) 1790s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1960s.

3. Halley believed that once scientists figured out the distance from the sun to the Earth, they could then calculate what?
(a) Distances to other planets.
(b) Distances to distant stars.
(c) Weight of Earth.
(d) Weight of the sun.

4. Between 1980 and 2003, how many supernovas did the Reverend Robert Evans of Australia discover using a simple backyard telescope?
(a) 42.
(b) 36.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

5. What is a supernova?
(a) A white dwarf.
(b) A red giant.
(c) A dying star.
(d) A young, emerging star.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The fact that Pluto has a moon was not discovered until:

3. About how many stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth?

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

5. What components were central to the apparatus that Henry Cavendish used to determine the density of Earth?

(see the answer key)

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