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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. When was Pluto discovered?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1930.

2. What percentage of a person's genes are shared with all other humans?
(a) 80.5.
(b) 99.9.
(c) 72.8.
(d) 65.7.

3. What is the name of the Navy-funded mini submarine often used in undersea explorations?
(a) Alvin.
(b) Levi.
(c) Chauncy.
(d) Chuck.

4. Who was the first person to describe a cell?
(a) Matthias Jakob Schleiden.
(b) Robert Hooke.
(c) Theodor Schwann.
(d) Van Leeuwenhoek.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately 50 million years ago, Antarctica was:

2. Which of the following is not a layer of Earth?

3. How far away is Proxima Centauri from Earth?

4. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:

5. Regarding species that have gone extinct, scientists generally:

(see the answer key)

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