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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When oceanographer Jacques Piccard and a U.S. Navy sailor descended more than 35,000 feet to the deepest part of the world's oceans, what happened?
(a) The power went out in their ocean capsule.
(b) They startled a flat fish upon touching down.
(c) They saw the remains of a sunken ship.
(d) They were stranded there for days and nearly died.

2. What percentage of all existing water is fresh water?
(a) 17.
(b) 3.
(c) 23.
(d) 10.

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

4. The first eruption of Yellowstone took place how many years ago?
(a) 630 thousand.
(b) 19.7 billion.
(c) 74 thousand.
(d) 16.5 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The internal workings of cells are:

2. Compared to at sea level, oxygen at a few thousand feet above sea level is:

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

4. What is an extremophile?

5. Mitochondria convert food and oxygen into ATP, which is what?

(see the answer key)

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