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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?
(a) Butterfly effect.
(b) Hummingbird effect.
(c) Pufferfish effect.
(d) Kangaroo effect.

2. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) The digital computer and television.
(b) The space satellite and digital computer.
(c) The television and automobile.
(d) The automobile and space stellite.

3. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) Spearfish, South Dakota.
(b) Omaha, Nebraska.
(c) Cincinnati, Ohio.
(d) Anchorage, Alaska.

4. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The U.S. Navy.
(b) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(c) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(d) The Interior Department.

5. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?
(a) "Fractals".
(b) "Turbulence".
(c) "Incongruity".
(d) "Cantor dust".

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

2. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?

3. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?

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

5. 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?

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