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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A higher parameter.
(b) A fraction parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A multiplier parameter.

2. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.
(a) Paradigm.
(b) Parameter.
(c) Fraction.
(d) Divisor.

3. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
(a) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(b) Richard Feynman.
(c) Edward Lorenz.
(d) Stephen Spender.

4. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Oscillation.
(b) Stochastic.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Incongruity.

5. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) A parameter.
(c) Energy.
(d) Gradient.

Short Answer Questions

1. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?

2. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

3. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?

4. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?

5. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

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