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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Plate tectonics refers to:
(a) The mechanism behind sand dunes.
(b) The motion of the Earth's atmosphere.
(c) The motion of the Earth's crust.
(d) The mechanism behind hurricanes.

2. What percentage of all existing water is fresh water?
(a) 3.
(b) 17.
(c) 10.
(d) 23.

3. Compared to at sea level, oxygen at a few thousand feet above sea level is:
(a) More plentiful.
(b) Thinner.
(c) Heavier.
(d) Purer.

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

5. What organisms does the author say are the most enduring inhabitants of our planet?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Fungi.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a major geological era?

2. Atoms are made up of smaller particles, including:

3. While the Compte de Buffon was spouting his theories of the new world, what was Frenchman Georges Cuvier doing?

4. 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:

5. The British astronomer Martin Rees hypothesizes that there could be an infinite number of what?

(see the answer key)

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