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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. Approximately how many miles are there from Earth's surface to its core?
(a) 45,599.
(b) 695.
(c) 3,959.
(d) 595,399.

2. What book did paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould write?
(a) Amazing Creatures.
(b) Fantastic Voyage.
(c) Wonderful Life.
(d) Enormous Animals.

3. The Burgess Shale Formation, containing tens of thousands of fossils of soft-bodied creatures preserved by a mudslide, was found where?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Canada.
(d) Japan.

4. Our universe is at least how many light-years wide?
(a) 350 trillion.
(b) 100 billion.
(c) 5 trillion.
(d) 50 million trillions.

5. According to Einstein's theories, what is the nature of space?
(a) It has missing points.
(b) It is a straight line.
(c) It is a flat plane.
(d) It curves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Only one out of how many bones is ever fossilized?

3. According to James Ussher, an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland who was alive in the 1600s, Earth had been created:

4. The author states that extinction seems to be:

5. Had the universe formed just slightly differently:

(see the answer key)

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