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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. In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering radioactivity?
(a) René Just Haüy and Jean Becquerel.
(b) Marie Curie and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
(c) Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
(d) Louise Désirée Lorieux, Jean Becquerel, and Henri Becquerel.

2. 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) John Dalton.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) George Hadley.
(d) Hans Geiger.

3. According to Bryson, what percentage of all animal and plant life is yet to be discovered?
(a) 54.
(b) 97.
(c) 32.
(d) 19.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an extremophile?

2. In a span of just 20 years, the number of known moons in the solar system grew from:

3. Tired of climbing hills to study clouds, C. T. R. Wilson invented what?

4. What followed the last supervolcanic eruption on Earth in the region that is now northern Sumatra?

5. Many scientists suspect that Pluto is just a comet of the:

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