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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?
(a) Fractals Everywhere.
(b) Physical Review Letters.
(c) Period Three Implies Chaos.
(d) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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

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

4. 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"?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Ink blots.
(c) Postage stamps.
(d) Nature photographs.

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

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. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?

3. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?

4. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?

5. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

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