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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Invented in the 1930s, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have proven to be damaging to:

2. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?

3. Had the universe formed just slightly differently:

4. According to the Caltech physicist Richard Feynman, the most important discovery ever made is what?

5. Who postponed his honeymoon in order to write a scientific paper about the movements of electrons?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe inner solar system asteroids.

2. What happened when Max Planck was advised to study math instead of physics?

3. Explain the misunderstanding of radiation during the early 1900s.

4. How did the English scientist Henry Cavendish determine the weight of Earth?

5. Summarize what the author says about why it took so long to discover that Pluto has a moon.

6. Describe what happened to an enormous thighbone discovered in New Jersey in 1789.

7. Describe what happens in a supernova.

8. What explanation did James Hutton come up with to describe the phenomenon of seashell fossils frequently found on mountaintops?

9. How does the Superstring Theory explain quarks?

10. Describe what the Archbishop James Usser and the Reverend William Buckland concluded regarding the age of Earth.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is continental drift? How did this concept emerge within the scientific community? How long did it take for this idea to gain acceptance? What evidence pointed to the reality of continental drift?

Essay Topic 2

How did the dinosaurs become extinct? Explain the sequence of events that happened after the asteroid hit. What was the outcome to other life forms? What conditions changed in the aftermath? What group of animals became dominant following the dinosaur extinction?

Essay Topic 3

Describe earthquakes, including the mechanism behind them, where they can hit, and how they are measured.

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