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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Big Bang Theory first proposed?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1790s.
(d) 1850s.

2. Harry Hess determined that, in the Atlantic, the ocean floor is:
(a) Shrinking.
(b) Super heated.
(c) Expanding.
(d) Super cooled.

3. Scientists eventually figured out that certain unusual rocks near Manson, Iowa, were not because of ancient volcanic activity as they first surmised, but the result of what?
(a) A mini ice age.
(b) A lightning storm.
(c) A huge meteor.
(d) A dynamite explosion.

4. Earth is composed of 8 to 12 larger plates and about how many smaller ones?
(a) Five.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Twenty.

5. Fred Hoyle came up with the term "Big Bang" while trying to:
(a) Prove the theory.
(b) Disprove the theory.
(c) Simplify how the universe came to exist.
(d) Show how life evolved on Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pluto is the first planet to be discovered by an:

2. Which body of water holds more than half of the planet's water?

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

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

5. How deep is Earth's atmosphere?

(see the answer key)

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