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

2. A hundred years before Einstein's math analyses confirmed the existence of atoms, this self-educated scientist suggested everything is made up of tiny, unchangeable particles:
(a) Hans Geiger.
(b) John Dalton.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) George Hadley.

3. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:
(a) Clothes.
(b) Swords.
(c) Cathedrals.
(d) Eyeglasses.

4. Had the universe formed just slightly differently:
(a) Our solar system would have ten times more planets.
(b) Mankind would not exist.
(c) Earth would have seven moons.
(d) Planets would be flat instead of round.

5. Max Planck ignored those who urged him to avoid physics and ended up doing groundbreaking work on:
(a) Entropy.
(b) Optics.
(c) Acceleration.
(d) Electromagnetism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the French Compte de Buffon claim about the New World (the Americas) compared to the known Old World?

2. About how many stars can be seen from Earth using a two-inch telescope?

3. James Hutton believed that the natural forces forming the geology of Earth are:

4. Quarks are held together by gluons and make up what?

5. When radiation was first discovered, people thought it must have:

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