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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. The fact that Pluto has a moon was not discovered until:
(a) 1965.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1936.

2. With so many hominid species existing in the past, why did only one survive?
(a) Greater capacity for compassion.
(b) Larger brain.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Nobody knows.

3. Scientists eventually figured out that certain unusual rocks near Manson, Iowa, were not because of ancient volcanic activity as they first surmised, but the result of what?
(a) A huge meteor.
(b) A dynamite explosion.
(c) A lightning storm.
(d) A mini ice age.

4. In 1875, why was Max Planck advised against studying physics and urged to study math instead?
(a) A career in math offered greater financial opportunities for him.
(b) The government often arrested those who delved in certain branches of physics.
(c) Planek knew high-level math but only very basic physics.
(d) It was believed that all the important physics discoveries had already been made.

5. In 2003, NASA came up with an estimated age of the universe. What was it?
(a) 103.5 million years.
(b) 731 trillion years.
(c) 13.7 billion years.
(d) 35 million years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between 1980 and 2003, how many supernovas did the Reverend Robert Evans of Australia discover using a simple backyard telescope?

2. Today, scientists know that radiation in high doses is:

3. During the Cryogenian period 1.2 billion years ago, Earth was:

4. Richard Owen coined the term paleontology as the study of prehistoric life forms and called the giant animals dinosaurian, meaning:

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

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