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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the time the book was written, how much did the GRACE satellites discover that the ice volume in Antarctica is decreasing per year?
(a) 43 cubic miles.
(b) 27 cubic miles.
(c) 36 cubic miles.
(d) 51 cubic miles.

3. How many times less toxic is plutonium that cyanide?
(a) Around 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) About 5.

4. If a fusion reactor could be built, how much deuterium and tritium would be needed yearly for a gigawatt power plant?
(a) 500 pounds.
(b) 150 pounds.
(c) 350 pounds.
(d) 200 pounds.

5. How many people could be killed by the radioactivity in a nuclear power plant if they ate it?
(a) 30 million.
(b) 90 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 50 million.

6. In Chapter 14, where was a very large tokamak being built?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

7. When did Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann mistakenly believe they had achieved cold fusion?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1991.

8. In Chapter 15, how many satellites did the author state would be needed to view the entire globe continuously?
(a) Around 6,500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 4,500.
(d) About 5,000.

9. When did the author spend a night with the U.S. Border Patrol?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

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

11. In 2008, how much of the electricity generated in the United States came from nuclear power plants?
(a) 30%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 15%.

12. When did Luis Alvarez and his colleagues discover a way to eliminate the need for high termperature in fusion?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1961.

13. How fast does a person falling accelerate from 0 to 66 miles per hour?
(a) 11 seconds.
(b) 3 seconds.
(c) 10 seconds.
(d) 9 seconds.

14. When did the space shuttle Columbia explode?
(a) January 9, 2003.
(b) March 11, 2003.
(c) February 1, 2003.
(d) April 23, 2003.

15. In Chapter 17, how many shuttles had been lost in more than 100 missions?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 16.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did China become the biggest source of the carbon dioxide increase?

2. In Chapter 19, for what time period have written records of temperatures been analyzed?

3. In 2007, where was a secret nuclear facility discovered when Israel attacked the country?

4. During what period of time was the temperature about 2 degrees F than at the time the book was written?

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

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