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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. What was the HMS Beagle, and how was it related to Charles Darwin?
(a) A hot-air balloon he used to survey the land.
(b) A laboratory created for him by the king.
(c) A ship he travelled on, collecting specimens.
(d) A microscope given to him by his wife.

2. Scientists believe that our planet is currently in a period of what?
(a) Relative warmth within an ice age.
(b) Relative cold within a temperate age.
(c) Declining temperatures.
(d) Steadily increasing temperatures.

3. Atoms are made up of smaller particles, including:
(a) Bytes.
(b) Quarks.
(c) Molecules.
(d) Cells.

4. The human body is composed of how many cells?
(a) 500 million.
(b) 10,000 trillion.
(c) 2,000 billion.
(d) 800 thousand.

5. Vesto Slipher's work at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona led him to discover that distant stars are moving away from us, with the farthest stars moving the fastest, suggesting that the universe is:
(a) Stable.
(b) Shrinking.
(c) Oscillating.
(d) Expanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carl Linnaeus bring order to through his method of classification?

2. In 1994, scientists observed as the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter. One particular comet fragment struck the planet with a force of six million megatons, which is equivalent to approximately what?

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

4. Of the available land on Earth, how much is suitable for people to live on?

5. Which of the following is not a layer of Earth?

(see the answer key)

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