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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. Scientists now believe that life began on Earth how long ago?
(a) 3.85 billion years.
(b) 7.35 trillion years.
(c) 5.75 million years.
(d) 6.25 thousand years.

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

3. The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is thought to be the site of what?
(a) Asteroid impact that brought on the extinction of dinosaurs.
(b) Most advanced ancient telescope ever developed.
(c) First legitimate UFO landing.
(d) Landfall of the largest hurricane in the past thousand years.

4. Pluto is the first planet to be discovered by an:
(a) American.
(b) Australian.
(c) Austrian.
(d) Argentine.

5. When oceanographer Jacques Piccard and a U.S. Navy sailor descended more than 35,000 feet to the deepest part of the world's oceans, what happened?
(a) They were stranded there for days and nearly died.
(b) They saw the remains of a sunken ship.
(c) They startled a flat fish upon touching down.
(d) The power went out in their ocean capsule.

Short Answer Questions

1. Trilobites are fossils of what?

2. The author states that extinction seems to be:

3. Compared to at sea level, oxygen at a few thousand feet above sea level is:

4. What did the French Compte de Buffon claim about the New World (the Americas) compared to the known Old World?

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

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