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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who postponed his honeymoon in order to write a scientific paper about the movements of electrons?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) James Chadwick.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Albert Einstein.

3. When radiation was first discovered, people thought it must have:
(a) High toxicity.
(b) Been caused by thunderstorms.
(c) An extraterrestrial origin.
(d) Healthful properties.

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

5. As of July 2001, approximately how many asteroids had been identified?
(a) 240.
(b) 29,000,000.
(c) 2,700.
(d) 26,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Pluto discovered?

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

3. Through the examples provided about Thomas Midgley's inventions, what is the author trying to say about science?

4. In 2003, NASA came up with an estimated age of the universe. What was it?

5. Plate tectonics refers to:

(see the answer key)

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