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

2. Quarks are held together by gluons and make up what?
(a) Electrons and protons.
(b) Neutrons and neutrinos.
(c) Electrons and neutrons.
(d) Protons and neutrons.

3. With scientists having found so many dinosaur bones by the dawn of the twentieth century, what did they conclude about the age of Earth?
(a) It is hundreds of billions of years old.
(b) It has to be much older than 20 million years.
(c) It is no older than 5 million years.
(d) Nobody will ever figure out its age.

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) Terrible lizard.
(c) Enormous creature.
(d) Ancient animal.

5. Tired of climbing hills to study clouds, C. T. R. Wilson invented what?
(a) Indoor cloud chamber.
(b) Balloon-propelled cloud camera.
(c) Cloud telescope.
(d) Cloud simulation computer program.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are so small that the dot on the letter "i" could hold 5 billion of them?

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

3. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:

4. Max Planck ignored those who urged him to avoid physics and ended up doing groundbreaking work on:

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

(see the answer key)

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