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

2. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?
(a) "Fractals Everywhere".
(b) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
(c) "Physical Review Letters".
(d) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".

3. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
(a) Linear system.
(b) Hyperlinear system.
(c) Nonlinear system.
(d) Thermolinear system.

4. 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) Kangaroo effect.
(b) Pufferfish effect.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Hummingbird effect.

5. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) Postage stamps.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Ink blots.
(d) Nature photographs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?

3. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.

4. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

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

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