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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Superstring Theory, the components making up protons, neutrons, electrons, and neutrinos are not regular particles, but instead are:
(a) Super-cooled forces.
(b) Super particles.
(c) Gravity pockets.
(d) Vibrating strings.

2. Approximately how many okapi live in the rain forests of Zaire?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 1,340,000.
(d) 30,000.

3. The author states that extinction seems to be:
(a) Because of natural disasters.
(b) A natural part of the life cycle.
(c) A rare occurrence on Earth.
(d) Almost exclusively caused by humans.

4. Fred Hoyle came up with the term "Big Bang" while trying to:
(a) Simplify how the universe came to exist.
(b) Prove the theory.
(c) Disprove the theory.
(d) Show how life evolved on Earth.

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) The power went out in their ocean capsule.
(b) They saw the remains of a sunken ship.
(c) They startled a flat fish upon touching down.
(d) They were stranded there for days and nearly died.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering radioactivity?

2. Anders Celsius, who designed the Celsius thermometer, was an:

3. Ice ages are caused by:

4. In what year did Charles Darwin publish his famous book on natural selection called "On The Origin Of Species"?

5. Which of the following is NOT a quark "flavor?"

(see the answer key)

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