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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. Had the universe formed just slightly differently:
(a) Planets would be flat instead of round.
(b) Earth would have seven moons.
(c) Mankind would not exist.
(d) Our solar system would have ten times more planets.

2. The strongest earthquake ever recorded was measured off the coast of Chile in 1960. What did it measure on the Richter scale?
(a) 10.2.
(b) 7.8.
(c) 8.9.
(d) 9.5.

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

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

5. According to the Caltech physicist Richard Feynman, the most important discovery ever made is what?
(a) Pasteurization.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Penicillin.
(d) Atoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. By volume, how much of the Earth's habitable space is covered by water?

2. What organisms does the author say are the most enduring inhabitants of our planet?

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

4. The Burgess Shale Formation, containing tens of thousands of fossils of soft-bodied creatures preserved by a mudslide, was found where?

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

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