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

2. What organization opposed geologist Clair Patterson and his campaign?
(a) American Dairy Association.
(b) American Academy of Pediatrics.
(c) Swimming Pool Safety Institute.
(d) American Petroleum Institute.

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

4. The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is thought to be the site of what?
(a) Landfall of the largest hurricane in the past thousand years.
(b) First legitimate UFO landing.
(c) Asteroid impact that brought on the extinction of dinosaurs.
(d) Most advanced ancient telescope ever developed.

5. What massive bone belonging to a dinosaur was found in New Jersey in 1789?
(a) Shoulder blade.
(b) Thighbone.
(c) Hipbone.
(d) Collarbone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1875, why was Max Planck advised against studying physics and urged to study math instead?

2. Astronomer Edmond Halley approached mathematician Sir Isaac Newton to get his help figuring out why planets:

3. Earth is the only planet in the solar system to have what?

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

5. Halley believed that once scientists figured out the distance from the sun to the Earth, they could then calculate what?

(see the answer key)

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