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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2003, NASA came up with an estimated age of the universe. What was it?
(a) 103.5 million years.
(b) 731 trillion years.
(c) 35 million years.
(d) 13.7 billion years.

2. 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) Louise Désirée Lorieux.
(c) René Just Haüy.
(d) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

3. While he worked at General Motors Research Corporation in 1921, engineer Thomas Midgley, Jr. developed what dangerous gasoline additive?
(a) Hydrochloric acid.
(b) Tetraethyl lead.
(c) Combustion catalyst.
(d) Isopropyl alcohol.

4. Richard Owen coined the term paleontology as the study of prehistoric life forms and called the giant animals dinosaurian, meaning:
(a) Large reptile.
(b) Enormous creature.
(c) Ancient animal.
(d) Terrible lizard.

5. The fact that Pluto has a moon was not discovered until:
(a) 1978.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1936.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do today's professional astronomers search for supernovae?

2. In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering radioactivity?

3. Which of the following is NOT a quark "flavor?"

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

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

(see the answer key)

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