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

2. A Swedish DNA study concludes that all modern humans descended from how many people in Africa?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 10,000.

3. Plate tectonics refers to:
(a) The motion of the Earth's atmosphere.
(b) The motion of the Earth's crust.
(c) The mechanism behind sand dunes.
(d) The mechanism behind hurricanes.

4. After noticing an unusual phenomenon with uranium salts and a photographic plate, Henri Becquerel asked one of his graduate students to investigate the matter. Who was this student?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Louise Désirée Lorieux.
(c) René Just Haüy.
(d) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

5. Who suggested that mass and energy are actually the same thing?
(a) Joseph Lister.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Charles Darwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that one scientist claimed there is less genetic diversity among the entire human population than there is among a:

2. What is a biped?

3. When radiation was first discovered, people thought it must have:

4. The KT meteor caused dinosaurs to become extinct but paved the way for what to become the new dominant species?

5. What was the HMS Beagle, and how was it related to Charles Darwin?

(see the answer key)

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