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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third premise of "On the Origin of Species"?
(a) Living creatures create more off-spring than nature can support.
(b) Survival is based on nature versus nurture.
(c) There are variations within species.
(d) Survival is based on the process of natural selection.

2. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?
(a) Astronomical units.
(b) Particles.
(c) Bosons.
(d) Leptons.

3. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Aristotle.

4. What is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping?
(a) Cartography.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Chronometry.
(d) Alchemy.

5. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?
(a) The USS Explorer.
(b) The HMS Explorer.
(c) The Beagle.
(d) The HMS Endeavour.

Short Answer Questions

1. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?

2. What is the second premise of "On the Origin of Species"?

3. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?

4. Although Darwin wrote his theory in a 230-page essay, he did not publish it for how long?

5. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

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