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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. What happened to the dinosaur bone discovered in New Jersey in 1789?
(a) It was sold to a museum in England.
(b) It is on permanent display at the Smithsonian.
(c) It had been permanently misplaced.
(d) It is part of a wealthy family's private collection.

2. Many scientists suspect that Pluto is just a comet of the:
(a) Orion Belt.
(b) Solar Belt.
(c) Kuiper Belt.
(d) Neptunian Belt.

3. Which of the following is NOT a quark "flavor?"
(a) Down.
(b) Charm.
(c) Strange.
(d) Inverted.

4. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:
(a) Polar ice caps do not melt.
(b) The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Australia.
(c) There are no polar bears in Antarctica.
(d) Seashell fossils are found on mountaintops.

5. Halley believed that once scientists figured out the distance from the sun to the Earth, they could then calculate what?
(a) Weight of Earth.
(b) Distances to distant stars.
(c) Weight of the sun.
(d) Distances to other planets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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:

3. Our universe is at least how many light-years wide?

4. Scientists are aware of at least how many galaxies in the universe?

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

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