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

2. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?
(a) "Turbulence".
(b) "Incongruity".
(c) "Fractals".
(d) "Cantor dust".

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

4. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A turkey baster.
(b) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(c) A twenty-story high pendulum.
(d) A softball.

5. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?
(a) James Gleick.
(b) Richard Feynman.
(c) Stephen Spender.
(d) Thomas S. Kuhn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?

2. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

3. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

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

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

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