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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Astronomer Edmond Halley believed that the distance from the Earth to the sun could be deduced from the:
(a) Size of solar flares.
(b) Transits of Venus.
(c) Distance to the moon.
(d) Position of Mars.

2. Which of the following is not a major geological era?
(a) Precolumbian.
(b) Precambrian.
(c) Mesozoic.
(d) Paleozoic.

3. About how many stars can be seen from Earth using a two-inch telescope?
(a) 3 million.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 3,000.

4. Fred Hoyle came up with the term "Big Bang" while trying to:
(a) Prove the theory.
(b) Disprove the theory.
(c) Simplify how the universe came to exist.
(d) Show how life evolved on Earth.

5. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:
(a) Swords.
(b) Eyeglasses.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Cathedrals.

Short Answer Questions

1. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:

2. James Hutton believed that the natural forces forming the geology of Earth are:

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

4. In the 1700s, people were finding holes in theories. For example, if the thoughts on erosion were completely correct, then:

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

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