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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. What campaign did geologist Clair Patterson take on?
(a) Fortifying milk with vitamin D.
(b) Removing lead additives from gasoline.
(c) Adding fluoride to drinking water.
(d) Removing chlorine from swimming pools.

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

3. What happened to the dinosaur bone discovered in New Jersey in 1789?
(a) It was sold to a museum in England.
(b) It is on permanent display at the Smithsonian.
(c) It is part of a wealthy family's private collection.
(d) It had been permanently misplaced.

4. What is the average distance between asteroids found in the inner solar system between Mars and Jupiter?
(a) A thousand miles.
(b) Ten billion miles.
(c) A million miles.
(d) Ten thousand miles.

5. Vesto Slipher's work at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona led him to discover that distant stars are moving away from us, with the farthest stars moving the fastest, suggesting that the universe is:
(a) Oscillating.
(b) Shrinking.
(c) Stable.
(d) Expanding.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:

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