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Quiz for SATURDAY - ODD ONES.

Postby Penny » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:37 pm

1. Which substance produced in nuclear reactors can be used to make nuclear weapons.

2. Right whales were killed in such large numbers that they are now rare. Where did they get their name

3. What is the device for cutting the toxic fumes from car exhausts

4. Name the political party that grew up in Western Europe in the 1970s with conservation as its main aim

5. Materials, like glass, plastic and heavy metals are non-biogradable. What does this mean

6, Which endangered animals inhabit the forests of the Virunga range of extinct volcanoes along the bordes of Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda.

7. What metal is used to create nuclear power.

8. Waldsterben is the German name given to tree dieback due to air polution, which was first noticed in the Black Forest in the late 1970s. What does the name mean.

9. The California condor is on the verge of extinction. What type of bird is it.

10. In 1979 a pressurized water reactor leaked radioactivity in the US. Where did this happen.

cheers Penny. :grouphug:
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Postby Rowan » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:43 pm

1. Plutonium
4. Green party
5. They don't break down easily and harmlessly in the way that more natural products do - it can take hundreds of years for some material to degrade.
7. Uranium
9. Bird of prey?
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Postby Tiddles » Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:02 pm

3. catalytic converter

8. dying of the forest from wald=forest and sterben = to die
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Postby drogo » Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:50 pm

9. A vulture
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Postby Victors Mate » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:04 pm

10 Three Mile Island
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Postby Tiddles » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:20 pm

2. They were given that name by the whalers that used to slaughter them - because they thought they were the "right" ones to hunt.
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Postby Penny » Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:15 pm

Brilliant, well done folks. All correct.Thought I might have caught you out with some of these. Looking for more for tomorrow. Cheers. Penny.
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