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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Reading, England.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Paris, France.

2. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?
(a) Kangaroo effect.
(b) Hummingbird effect.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Pufferfish effect.

3. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1861.

4. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?
(a) Silver Spring, Maryland.
(b) Huntsville, Alabama.
(c) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(d) Hot Springs, Arkansas.

5. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) West Hartford, Connecticut.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

2. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?

3. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

4. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

5. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

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