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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Iraq attempting to develop nuclear weapons?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1997.

2. When did Marion Hubbert do an analysis that showed oil will never completely run out?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1956.

3. How long do the carcinogens from coal-buring plants last in the ground?
(a) Forever.
(b) 500 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 50 years.

4. How long does the radioactivity of potassium-40 last?
(a) 100,000 years.
(b) 9 trillion years.
(c) A billion years.
(d) 2 million years.

5. At 5 miles per second, how much energy of an equal weight of TNT is carried by every ounce of a space shuttle, including its human cargo?
(a) 5 times.
(b) 12 times.
(c) 10 times.
(d) 8 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the last real ice age, how much lower were the oceans than today?

2. When did the nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island run out of control and a third of its uranium fuel melted?

3. How much of a rem is in tooth X-rays?

4. How many people could be killed by the radioactivity in a nuclear power plant if they ate it?

5. Where is much of the uranium obtained?

(see the answer key)

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