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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5,Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Carl Linnaeus bring order to through his method of classification?
(a) Naming features of the moon.
(b) The bacterial world.
(c) Naming bodies of water.
(d) The plant world.

2. Max Planck ignored those who urged him to avoid physics and ended up doing groundbreaking work on:
(a) Entropy.
(b) Electromagnetism.
(c) Optics.
(d) Acceleration.

3. In Chapter 23, the author discusses the battles that go on in the plant world regarding:
(a) Funding for plant research.
(b) What to name plants.
(c) Using plants for medicinal purposes.
(d) Who owns plant patents.

4. Vesto Slipher's work at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona led him to discover that distant stars are moving away from us, with the farthest stars moving the fastest, suggesting that the universe is:
(a) Shrinking.
(b) Expanding.
(c) Stable.
(d) Oscillating.

5. When did the last supervolcano erupt on Earth?
(a) 23,000 years ago.
(b) 9,000 years ago.
(c) 74,000 years ago.
(d) 1,100 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an extremophile?

2. Who suggested that mass and energy are actually the same thing?

3. In 1875, why was Max Planck advised against studying physics and urged to study math instead?

4. Approximately how many okapi live in the rain forests of Zaire?

5. According to Bryson, what percentage of all animal and plant life is yet to be discovered?

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