A Short History of Nearly Everything Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Bill Bryson
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A Short History of Nearly Everything Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Bill Bryson
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The oldest record of life found so far consists of fossilized traces of microbes discovered where?
(a) Finland.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Poland.

2. Earth is composed of 8 to 12 larger plates and about how many smaller ones?
(a) Eighty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

3. According to James Ussher, an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland who was alive in the 1600s, Earth had been created:
(a) Millions of years ago.
(b) On January 1, 10,000 B.C.
(c) In an instant.
(d) On October 23, 4004 B.C.

4. 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:
(a) Shrinking.
(b) Expanding.
(c) Oscillating.
(d) Stable.

5. Our universe is at least how many light-years wide?
(a) 100 billion.
(b) 5 trillion.
(c) 50 million trillions.
(d) 350 trillion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is found at the very center of the Earth?

2. Through the examples provided about Thomas Midgley's inventions, what is the author trying to say about science?

3. Today, scientists know that radiation in high doses is:

4. If all of the ice in Antarctica were to melt, by how much would ocean levels rise?

5. Most life on Earth is based on what element?

(see the answer key)

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