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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1924.

3. 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) Hummingbird effect.
(b) Kangaroo effect.
(c) Pufferfish effect.
(d) Butterfly effect.

4. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Information theory.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Economics.

5. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Thermodynamics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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" _______________?

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

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

5. 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?

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