Physics 1401

If you complete all of the online quizzes during the semester, you may replace your lowest two in-class quizzes with the highest average of all your online quizzes. Since you may take the online quizzes as often as you like, your highest average should be pretty good. However, in order to keep track, you must fill out the student name and id# part of the form.

For this quiz, click in the box then type in an answer and then click again outside the box for the fill-in-the-blank questions.

Question 1. The national nuclear waste repository is currently slated to be located at Mountain in the state of .

 

 

Question 2. When properly operating, the type of power plant (coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind) that releases the most radioactivity into the environment is .

 

 

Question 3. True or false: Most of the radiation exposure for an average citizen in the United States is from nuclear power plant operation and early atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. .

 

 

Question 4. If you have your own nuclear power plant, is it easier to obtain weapons grade uranium or weapons grade plutonium? .

 

 

Question 5. True or false: A "dirty bomb" will instantly kill thousands of people through the release of intense radiation. .

 

 

Question 6. True or false: Fossil fuels will almost certainly be exhausted by the end of the current century. .

 

 

Question 7. True or false: It will be easy to replace our current dependence on oil with a combination of other energy sources. .

 

 

Question 8. True or false: We have plenty of time to develop bridging technology that will get us from oil as our principal transportation fuel to something else. .

 

 

Question 9. The theory that real problems will start to occur when half of the total amount of oil in the world is used is known as oil.

 

 

Question 10. The last name of the Shell Oil Company geophysicist who accurately predicted the peak and decline of U.S. oil production is .

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