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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the mid-1980s in California, how many years in a row were there below-average rain and snowfall?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

2. In Chapter 5, what was the cost of nautral gass per million cubic feet?
(a) $12.
(b) $8.
(c) $10.
(d) $15.

3. How many watts per square food does overhead sunlight approximately deliver to the ground?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 200.

4. How long did it take the Manhattan Project scientists and engineers to build three nuclear weapons?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 5 years.

5. In Chapter 23, what was the price of a kilowatt-hour of electricity?
(a) 20 cents.
(b) 10 cents.
(c) 5 cents.
(d) 15 cents.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many satellites needed to be in view for a GPS system to work on a plane?

2. When did the United States go after Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan?

3. What percent of the energy of gasoline is carried by the best rechargeable batteries?

4. When did Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann mistakenly believe they had achieved cold fusion?

5. If a fighter pilot enters a maneuver that accelerates him for a brief time at 9 g, what force is exerted upon him?

(see the answer key)

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