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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. James Hutton believed that the natural forces forming the geology of Earth are:
(a) Still at work.
(b) Random and unpredictable.
(c) Impossible to classify.
(d) Now extinct.

2. Mitochondria convert food and oxygen into ATP, which is what?
(a) A self-destruction signal.
(b) Energy used by the body.
(c) Waste that needs to be discarded.
(d) A new generation of mitochondria.

3. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:
(a) Polar ice caps do not melt.
(b) There are no polar bears in Antarctica.
(c) Seashell fossils are found on mountaintops.
(d) The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Australia.

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

5. In a cell, what is the cytoplasm?
(a) Contents of the cell outside the nucleus.
(b) Outer fatty casing.
(c) The nucleus.
(d) DNA inside each cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an extremophile?

2. Scientist Johann Friedrich Miescher is known for:

3. When was the Big Bang Theory first proposed?

4. How did humans become dispersed across the planet?

5. Before Charles Darwin wrote his famous book about natural selection, he spent eight years writing about what?

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