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

3. Scientists are aware of at least how many galaxies in the universe?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 110 thousand.
(c) 90 trillion.
(d) 140 billion.

4. Invented in the 1930s, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have proven to be damaging to:
(a) The tourism industry.
(b) The ozone layer.
(c) Refrigerator production.
(d) Underground caves.

5. In 2003, NASA came up with an estimated age of the universe. What was it?
(a) 103.5 million years.
(b) 35 million years.
(c) 13.7 billion years.
(d) 731 trillion years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggested that mass and energy are actually the same thing?

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

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

4. According to the Caltech physicist Richard Feynman, the most important discovery ever made is what?

5. According to the Reverend William Buckland, the biblical reference to "in the beginning" with regards to the formation of Earth could refer to:

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