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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Columbia explosion?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

2. How many times the energy of uranium and plutonium bombs can be released by hydrogen bombs?
(a) 800 times.
(b) 200 times.
(c) About 500 times.
(d) Over 1,000 times.

3. 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) 1 to 5 degrees F.
(d) 4 to 15 degrees F.

4. In fallout from a nuclear bomb, what material is most likely to cause the most human deaths?
(a) Polonium-215.
(b) Strontium-90.
(c) Phosphorus-32.
(d) Cesium-137.

5. About how many people near the Chernobyl reactor were thought to have received about 45 rem each?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 30,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the blast range for each warhead carried on nuclear missiles in Chapter 2?

3. What is the Earth's atmosphere?

4. How many tons of high-level nuclear waste were the underground tunnels at Yucca Mountain designed to hold?

5. How many rem was it estimated that survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received?

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