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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pluto is the first planet to be discovered by an:
(a) Austrian.
(b) Argentine.
(c) Australian.
(d) American.

2. What are eukarya?
(a) Carbon-trapping rocks.
(b) Salt-tolerant single-celled organisms.
(c) Bacteria that live on clouds.
(d) Organisms with nucleated cells.

3. Most human body cells live how long?
(a) 2 days.
(b) Less than a month.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 38 weeks.

4. Approximately how many miles are there from Earth's surface to its core?
(a) 3,959.
(b) 45,599.
(c) 595,399.
(d) 695.

5. Today, scientists know that radiation in high doses is:
(a) Toxic.
(b) Safe.
(c) Tolerable.
(d) Healthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Astronomer Edmond Halley approached mathematician Sir Isaac Newton to get his help figuring out why planets:

2. Continental drift refers to:

3. In a cell, what is the cytoplasm?

4. According to James Ussher, an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland who was alive in the 1600s, Earth had been created:

5. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:

(see the answer key)

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