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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1951.

2. 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) Bifurcation theory.
(d) Theoretical physics.

3. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?
(a) Frantic.
(b) Rambling.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Pandamonium.

4. 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".

5. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?

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

3. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?

4. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?

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

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