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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did it cost to launch a pound of anything into orbit in 2008?
(a) Around $7,500.
(b) $4,975.
(c) About $5,000.
(d) $3,330.

2. How much of a half-life does carbon-14 have?
(a) 3,910 years.
(b) 4,592 years.
(c) 2,840 years.
(d) 5,730 years.

3. How many tons of high-level nuclear waste were the underground tunnels at Yucca Mountain designed to hold?
(a) 110,000 tons.
(b) 92,000 tons.
(c) 45,000 tons.
(d) 77,000 tons.

4. How many people might be killed by a blast in the center of the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 210,000.
(c) 120,000.
(d) 240,000.

5. How much does the IPCC estimate that temperatures could rise during your lifetime?
(a) 2 to 8 degrees F.
(b) 3 to 10 degrees F.
(c) 4 to 15 degrees F.
(d) 1 to 5 degrees F.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Iraq attempting to develop nuclear weapons?

2. If the energy of a space shuttle is turned into heat and the heat transferred to the shuttle, to what temperature will the shuttle's temperature rise to?

3. How many horsepower do car engines deliver?

4. How many tons of gasoline mixed with air and detonated from a parachute, release the energy of over 100 tons of TNT?

5. In Part IV, how long did it take to go between Moscow and New York City by satellite?

(see the answer key)

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