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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James Hutton believed that the natural forces forming the geology of Earth are:
(a) Random and unpredictable.
(b) Now extinct.
(c) Still at work.
(d) Impossible to classify.

2. According to Einstein's theories, what is the nature of space?
(a) It has missing points.
(b) It curves.
(c) It is a flat plane.
(d) It is a straight line.

3. 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?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) René Just Haüy.
(c) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
(d) Louise Désirée Lorieux.

4. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:
(a) Seashell fossils are found on mountaintops.
(b) The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Australia.
(c) Polar ice caps do not melt.
(d) There are no polar bears in Antarctica.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What massive bone belonging to a dinosaur was found in New Jersey in 1789?

2. When radiation was first discovered, it was sometimes added to:

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

4. The British astronomer Martin Rees hypothesizes that there could be an infinite number of what?

5. Which of the following is not a major geological era?

(see the answer key)

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