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

2. When entomologist Terry Erwin collected insect samples from 19 rain forest trees, how many different varieties of beetles did he find?
(a) 42.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 150.
(d) 600.

3. What are eukarya?
(a) Salt-tolerant single-celled organisms.
(b) Bacteria that live on clouds.
(c) Carbon-trapping rocks.
(d) Organisms with nucleated cells.

4. A hundred years before Einstein's math analyses confirmed the existence of atoms, this self-educated scientist suggested everything is made up of tiny, unchangeable particles:
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Hans Geiger.
(c) George Hadley.
(d) John Dalton.

5. What followed the last supervolcanic eruption on Earth in the region that is now northern Sumatra?
(a) A reversal of the magnetic poles.
(b) A two-year series of tidal waves.
(c) Twenty years of intense earthquakes.
(d) A six-year volcanic winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Today, scientists know that radiation in high doses is:

2. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:

3. How many elements occur naturally on Earth?

4. In 1971, Mike Voorhies discovered an amazing fossil bed in Nebraska full of skeletons of prehistoric animals killed 12 millions years ago. How did they die?

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

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