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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French Compte de Buffon claim about the New World (the Americas) compared to the known Old World?
(a) Diseases of the New World would be much more deadly than in the Old World.
(b) Unusual, enormous species would be found in the New World.
(c) Everything was smaller and inferior in the New World.
(d) The New World was much more fertile than the old.

2. When radiation was first discovered, people thought it must have:
(a) High toxicity.
(b) An extraterrestrial origin.
(c) Healthful properties.
(d) Been caused by thunderstorms.

3. As of July 2001, approximately how many asteroids had been identified?
(a) 2,700.
(b) 29,000,000.
(c) 240.
(d) 26,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What components were central to the apparatus that Henry Cavendish used to determine the density of Earth?

3. Max Planck ignored those who urged him to avoid physics and ended up doing groundbreaking work on:

4. About how many stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth?

5. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:

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