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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Astronomer Edmond Halley approached mathematician Sir Isaac Newton to get his help figuring out why planets:
(a) Spin on their axes.
(b) Vary in size.
(c) Orbit the sun in ellipses.
(d) Are round.

2. When was the Big Bang Theory first proposed?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1790s.
(c) 1850s.
(d) 1960s.

3. Arranged side by side, how many atoms can fit across the width of a typical human hair?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) Half a million.
(d) Half a trillion.

4. Who suggested that mass and energy are actually the same thing?
(a) Joseph Lister.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. When was Pluto discovered?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1876.

Short Answer Questions

1. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?

2. Which famous scientist was once an unknown patent clerk in Switzerland?

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

4. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:

5. What is a supernova?

(see the answer key)

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