View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Controlled conditions."
(b) "Random conditions."
(c) "Ideal conditions."
(d) "Initial conditions."

2. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Revolutions.

3. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Biology.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Information theory.

4. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?
(a) Commonality.
(b) Prediction.
(c) Diversity.
(d) Dependence.

5. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?
(a) "Physical Review Letters".
(b) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
(c) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(d) "Fractals Everywhere".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?

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

3. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

4. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

5. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 269 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample