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

2. According to James Ussher, an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland who was alive in the 1600s, Earth had been created:
(a) On October 23, 4004 B.C.
(b) On January 1, 10,000 B.C.
(c) Millions of years ago.
(d) In an instant.

3. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?
(a) An emission from the salts ruined the plate.
(b) The salt crystals melted into the plate.
(c) The plate rusted.
(d) The plate became magnetic.

4. About how many stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth?
(a) 9,600.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 500.
(d) 6,000.

5. What are so small that the dot on the letter "i" could hold 5 billion of them?
(a) Quarks.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Protons.
(d) Viruses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many scientists suspect that Pluto is just a comet of the:

2. How far away is Proxima Centauri from Earth?

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

4. With scientists having found so many dinosaur bones by the dawn of the twentieth century, what did they conclude about the age of Earth?

5. What is a supernova?

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