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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
(a) Stephen Spender.
(b) Edward Lorenz.
(c) Richard Feynman.
(d) Thomas S. Kuhn.

2. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?
(a) Science of commonality.
(b) Normal science.
(c) Bland science.
(d) Psuedoscience.

3. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Fractal compression.

4. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1907.

5. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?
(a) Physics.
(b) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?

2. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?

3. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?

4. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

5. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?

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