"Green" Energy Quiz
Test yourself!
No trick questions. I can't give prizes.
See how far you go just from your own general-knowledge, without text-books, Wikipedia etc. Please don’t blurt out the answers until I have given them, probably tomorrow!
Please Note: This is a general-knowledge quiz, and I hope informative. If you wish to keep score, I’ll give the counts with the answers. It is mainly concerned with environmental matters but does extend a little more broadly.
I compiled it from remembered school science and geography, and much subsequent accumulated general and just a little work, interest and knowledge; the majority no more than I would expect of anyone really. Unless they are the average politician or that Greater Thunderbox lass, perhaps! No question needs deep, specialist, professional experience, and I used only enough research to verify facts.
I am now retired and although I have always worked at modest levels in trades related to science and engineering, have no other commercial, let alone political, gain connection to any of its topics.
1) Power relates to Energy how, by their proper units?
2) The single metallic chemical element fundamental to practically everything we own, use or do, is?
3) Which of these is NOT a “fossil fuel”: coal, petroleum, lignite, methane (natural gas)?
4) What is it (in Q3) instead?
5) Energy’s fundamental property is?
6) Why, until satisfactory alternatives are sufficiently feasible, will coal still be necessary for smelting Q2’s element from its ore (two reasons)?
7) Why does that smelting also use limestone?
8) If no more of Q3’s minerals, by depletion or policy, do we continue building wind turbo-alternators, battery-powered cars, etc., as now?
9) “Pollution” is also used for excessive noise, its pressure level usually quoted in “dB” (abbr. for “deciBels”). Is the dB a) a linear sound level unit, b) an integer range of levels, c) a measure of physiological effect, or d) based on the logarithm of a ratio of linear levels?
10) Two equivalent, modern cars; one petrol, the other diesel; both in full condition. Same driver, journeys and road conditions. Which car is the LESS atmospherically polluting?
11) Mean level of world-wide temperature rise alarming at < 2ºC. You’d hardly notice that alone, so the problem?
12) What is the AdBlue (brand-name) fluid sold in filling-stations, for? (In the UK – may have equivalents with different names, in other countries.)
13) The two basic forms of synthetic “Plastics” are…?
14) Which if any of these can NOT be salvaged for re-use / re-working as themselves, if in fair condition: steel, concrete, glass-fibre and carbon-fibre composites, aluminium, wood, glass, paint and varnish, paper, natural stone, polyethylene?
15) ISO14001 accreditation covers, what?
16) If the world’s sea-ice alone, such as the North Polar Ice-cap, melts, what might be the expected sea-level rise?
17) Certain plastic materials allowed into the seas can kill some forms of animals. So, poisonous, or what?
18) Basic meaning of Efficiency of an engineering system?
19) Exponential – oft-heard in the News, mostly in conjunction with the pandemic. a) rising rapidly, b) increasing by sudden, irregular steps, c) geometrical rate of change with respect to time ?
20) Renewable Energy, Nett Zero & Zero Carbon: simple clichés, but why lazy?
21) The basic problem of a ground-source heat-pump could be…?
22) Which if any of these are NOT synonyms, or are only so in specific situations: a) iron/steel, b) fuel/energy, c) climate/weather, d) course/trajectory, e) hazard/risk, f) speed/velocity.
23) Fracking: American drilling-rig operators’ slang for the purpose of their work. Its real name…?
24) 1HP = how many W?
No trick questions. I can't give prizes.
See how far you go just from your own general-knowledge, without text-books, Wikipedia etc. Please don’t blurt out the answers until I have given them, probably tomorrow!
Please Note: This is a general-knowledge quiz, and I hope informative. If you wish to keep score, I’ll give the counts with the answers. It is mainly concerned with environmental matters but does extend a little more broadly.
I compiled it from remembered school science and geography, and much subsequent accumulated general and just a little work, interest and knowledge; the majority no more than I would expect of anyone really. Unless they are the average politician or that Greater Thunderbox lass, perhaps! No question needs deep, specialist, professional experience, and I used only enough research to verify facts.
I am now retired and although I have always worked at modest levels in trades related to science and engineering, have no other commercial, let alone political, gain connection to any of its topics.
1) Power relates to Energy how, by their proper units?
2) The single metallic chemical element fundamental to practically everything we own, use or do, is?
3) Which of these is NOT a “fossil fuel”: coal, petroleum, lignite, methane (natural gas)?
4) What is it (in Q3) instead?
5) Energy’s fundamental property is?
6) Why, until satisfactory alternatives are sufficiently feasible, will coal still be necessary for smelting Q2’s element from its ore (two reasons)?
7) Why does that smelting also use limestone?
8) If no more of Q3’s minerals, by depletion or policy, do we continue building wind turbo-alternators, battery-powered cars, etc., as now?
9) “Pollution” is also used for excessive noise, its pressure level usually quoted in “dB” (abbr. for “deciBels”). Is the dB a) a linear sound level unit, b) an integer range of levels, c) a measure of physiological effect, or d) based on the logarithm of a ratio of linear levels?
10) Two equivalent, modern cars; one petrol, the other diesel; both in full condition. Same driver, journeys and road conditions. Which car is the LESS atmospherically polluting?
11) Mean level of world-wide temperature rise alarming at < 2ºC. You’d hardly notice that alone, so the problem?
12) What is the AdBlue (brand-name) fluid sold in filling-stations, for? (In the UK – may have equivalents with different names, in other countries.)
13) The two basic forms of synthetic “Plastics” are…?
14) Which if any of these can NOT be salvaged for re-use / re-working as themselves, if in fair condition: steel, concrete, glass-fibre and carbon-fibre composites, aluminium, wood, glass, paint and varnish, paper, natural stone, polyethylene?
15) ISO14001 accreditation covers, what?
16) If the world’s sea-ice alone, such as the North Polar Ice-cap, melts, what might be the expected sea-level rise?
17) Certain plastic materials allowed into the seas can kill some forms of animals. So, poisonous, or what?
18) Basic meaning of Efficiency of an engineering system?
19) Exponential – oft-heard in the News, mostly in conjunction with the pandemic. a) rising rapidly, b) increasing by sudden, irregular steps, c) geometrical rate of change with respect to time ?
20) Renewable Energy, Nett Zero & Zero Carbon: simple clichés, but why lazy?
21) The basic problem of a ground-source heat-pump could be…?
22) Which if any of these are NOT synonyms, or are only so in specific situations: a) iron/steel, b) fuel/energy, c) climate/weather, d) course/trajectory, e) hazard/risk, f) speed/velocity.
23) Fracking: American drilling-rig operators’ slang for the purpose of their work. Its real name…?
24) 1HP = how many W?
