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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 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) "Fractals Everywhere".
(d) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".

2. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.
(a) Fraction.
(b) Divisor.
(c) Paradigm.
(d) Parameter.

3. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

4. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."
(a) Geologists.
(b) Paleontologists.
(c) Ecologists.
(d) Botanists.

5. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Loyola University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?

2. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?

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

4. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

5. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?

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