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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the available land on Earth, how much is suitable for people to live on?
(a) 3 percent.
(b) 47 percent.
(c) 12 percent.
(d) 26 percent.

2. What are so small that the dot on the letter "i" could hold 5 billion of them?
(a) Quarks.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Protons.

3. Max Planck ignored those who urged him to avoid physics and ended up doing groundbreaking work on:
(a) Optics.
(b) Acceleration.
(c) Entropy.
(d) Electromagnetism.

4. What did Carl Linnaeus develop that is still in wide use today?
(a) Binomial system of genus and species.
(b) Way to differentiate closely related bacteria.
(c) System for naming lunar features.
(d) Method to unravel DNA codes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With so many hominid species existing in the past, why did only one survive?

2. What followed the last supervolcanic eruption on Earth in the region that is now northern Sumatra?

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

4. How quickly can bacteria create a new generation?

5. Scientist Johann Friedrich Miescher is known for:

(see the answer key)

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