Question: How much less steam did the Corliss engine use compared to the Watt engine?

Answer: 30%

Answer: 30% less steam

Answer: 30%


Question: How many valves did the Corliss engine use?

Answer: four

Answer: four

Answer: four


Question: What award was given to Corliss?

Answer: Rumford medal

Answer: Rumford medal

Answer: the Rumford medal


Question: What scientific field's theory has received contributions from the steam engine?

Answer: thermodynamic

Answer: thermodynamic theory

Answer: thermodynamic theory


Question: Who made experimental measurements on a model steam engine?

Answer: Watt

Answer: Watt

Answer: Watt


Question: What was developed from Watt's measurements on a model steam engine?

Answer: condenser

Answer: separate condenser

Answer: the separate condenser


Question: Who confirmed Watt's discovery of latent heat?

Answer: Joseph Black

Answer: Joseph Black

Answer: Joseph Black


Question: What concept, originally discovered by Black, was later discovered independently by Watt?

Answer: latent heat

Answer: latent heat

Answer: latent heat


Question: What is a main advantage of the Rankine cycle?

Answer: during the compression stage relatively little work is required to drive the pump

Answer: relatively little work is required to drive the pump,

Answer: during the compression stage relatively little work is required to drive the pump


Question: During the compression stage of the Rankine cycle, what state is the working fluid in?

Answer: liquid

Answer: liquid phase

Answer: liquid


Question: How much turbine power is consumed by the pump while the work fluid is condensed?

Answer: 1% to 3%

Answer: 1% to 3%

Answer: 1% to 3%


Question: What is the approximate turbine entry temperature of a gas turbine?

Answer: 1500 °C

Answer: 1500 °C

Answer: 1500 °C


Question: What is an example of a pump component?

Answer: injector

Answer: condensers

Answer: injector


Question: In addition to recirculating water, what do condensers do?

Answer: recover the latent heat of vaporisation

Answer: recover the latent heat of vaporisation

Answer: recover the latent heat of vaporisation


Question: What components raise steam temperature above its saturated vapor point?

Answer: superheaters

Answer: superheaters

Answer: superheaters


Question: What is another name for a coal supply bin?

Answer: bunker

Answer: bunker

Answer: bunker


Question: What mechanism moves coal from a bunker to the firebox?

Answer: stoking

Answer: Mechanical stoker

Answer: a chain or screw stoking mechanism


Question: The frequent availability of what substance allowed land-based steam engines to exhaust a great deal of steam?

Answer: feed water

Answer: water

Answer: feed water


Question: People of what nationality invented the steam turbine?

Answer: British

Answer: British

Answer: British


Question: What was an example of a type of warship that required high speed?

Answer: dreadnought battleships

Answer: dreadnought battleships

Answer: dreadnought battleships


Question: Other than warships, what ships typically required high speeds?

Answer: ocean liners

Answer: ocean liners

Answer: ocean liners


Question: In what year was HMS Dreadnought launched?

Answer: 1905

Answer: 1905

Answer: 1905


Question: What do nuclear power plants heat to create electricity?

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: water


Question: What does the steam generated by a nuclear power plant drive?

Answer: turbine

Answer: turbine

Answer: a turbine connected to an electrical generator


Question: In a nuclear power plant, what is the steam turbine connected to?

Answer: electrical generator

Answer: electrical generator

Answer: a turbo generator set with propulsion provided by electric motors


Question: What is it called when steam propels a turbo generator with electric motor propulsion?

Answer: turbo-electric transmission

Answer: turbo-electric transmission,

Answer: turbo-electric transmission


Question: Where were non-condensing direct-drive locomotives notably used for fast passenger trains?

Answer: Britain

Answer: Britain

Answer: Britain


Question: What is the Rankine cycle sometimes called?

Answer: practical Carnot cycle

Answer: practical Carnot cycle

Answer: a practical Carnot cycle


Question: Where does heat rejection occur in the Rankine cycle?

Answer: in the condenser

Answer: in the condenser

Answer: in the condenser


Question: What does isobaric mean?

Answer: constant pressure

Answer: constant pressure

Answer: constant pressure


Question: What is a term that means constant temperature?

Answer: isothermal

Answer: isothermal

Answer: isothermal


Question: In the Rankine cycle, in what state is the working fluid received in the condenser?

Answer: liquid

Answer: a liquid

Answer: gaseous


Question: The atomic number of the periodic table for oxygen?

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8


Question: What is the second most abundant element?

Answer: helium

Answer: helium

Answer: helium

Answer: helium

Answer: helium


Question: How many atoms combine to form dioxygen?

Answer: two atoms

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: Roughly, how much oxygen makes up the Earth crust?

Answer: almost half

Answer: almost half

Answer: half

Answer: almost half

Answer: half


Question: Which gas makes up 20.8% of the Earth's atmosphere?

Answer: Diatomic oxygen

Answer: Diatomic oxygen

Answer: Diatomic oxygen gas

Answer: Diatomic oxygen

Answer: Diatomic oxygen gas


Question: How much of the earth's atmosphere is diatomic oxygen?

Answer: 20.8%

Answer: 20.8%

Answer: 20.8%

Answer: 20.8%

Answer: 20.8%


Question: What element makes up almost half of the earth's crust by mass?

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen


Question: What is the atomic number for oxygen?

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8


Question: Are atmospheric oxygen levels going up, down, or staying the same?

Answer: monitoring of atmospheric oxygen levels show a global downward trend

Answer: down

Answer: down

Answer: down

Answer: downward


Question: What are the three most abundent elements of the universe by mass?

Answer: By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium

Answer: oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium

Answer: oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium

Answer: oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium

Answer: By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium.


Question: What is the atomic number of the element oxygen?

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8

Answer: 8


Question: Of what group in the periodic table is oxygen a member?

Answer: chalcogen

Answer: chalcogen

Answer: chalcogen

Answer: chalcogen

Answer: the chalcogen group


Question: What type of compounds does oxygen most commonly form?

Answer: oxides

Answer: oxides

Answer: oxides

Answer: oxide compounds

Answer: oxide


Question: Compared to other elements, how abundant does oxygen rank?

Answer: third

Answer: third-most

Answer: third

Answer: third-most

Answer: third


Question: Under normal conditions, what do two atoms of oxygen form?

Answer: dioxygen

Answer: diatomic gas

Answer: dioxygen

Answer: dioxygen

Answer: dioxygen


Question: Oxygen is released in cellular respiration by?

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis


Question: Photosynthesis uses which energy to for oxygen from water?

Answer: sunlight

Answer: sunlight

Answer: sunlight

Answer: the energy of sunlight

Answer: sunlight


Question: _____ Helps the biospher from UV.

Answer: high-altitude ozone layer

Answer: ozone

Answer: ozone layer

Answer: ozone


Question: What element is found in most organic organisms?

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen


Question: In what major portion of living things is oxygen found?

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: organic molecules

Answer: inorganic compounds

Answer: mass


Question: What life process produces oxygen in the presence of light?

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: living organisms

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis


Question: From what does photosynthesis get oxygen?

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: water


Question: What form of oxygen is composed of three oxygen atoms?

Answer: ozone

Answer: ozone

Answer: ozone

Answer: ozone


Question: Who proved that air is necessary for combustion?

Answer: Robert Boyle

Answer: Robert Boyle

Answer: Boyle

Answer: Robert Boyle


Question: What English chemist showed that fire only needed nitoaereus?

Answer: John Mayow

Answer: John Mayow

Answer: Mayow

Answer: John Mayow


Question: What is consumed in both combustion and respiration?

Answer: nitroaereus

Answer: nitroaereus

Answer: nitroaereus

Answer: nitroaereus


Question: John Mayow died in what year?

Answer: 1679

Answer: 1679

Answer: 1679

Answer: 1679


Question: What researcher showed that air is a necessity for combustion?

Answer: Robert Boyle

Answer: Robert Boyle

Answer: Boyle

Answer: Robert Boyle


Question: What did John Mayow  name the part of air that caused combustion?

Answer: nitroaereus

Answer: spiritus nitroaereus

Answer: spiritus nitroaereus

Answer: spiritus nitroaereus or just nitroaereus


Question: In what century did Mayow and Boyle perform their experiments?

Answer: 17th century

Answer: 17th

Answer: 17th

Answer: late 17th century


Question: Besides combustion, for what other action did Mayow show nitroaereus responsible?

Answer: respiration

Answer: respiration

Answer: respiration

Answer: respiration


Question: What chemist showed that fire needed only a part of air?

Answer: John Mayow

Answer: John Mayow

Answer: Mayow

Answer: John Mayow


Question: "An Account of Further Discoveries in Air" was published by who in 1775?

Answer: Joseph Priestley

Answer: Priestley

Answer: Joseph Priestley

Answer: Joseph Priestley

Answer: Priestley


Question: What was the occupation of Joseph Priestley?

Answer: clergyman

Answer: clergyman

Answer: clergyman

Answer: clergyman

Answer: clergyman


Question: The symbol for mercuric oxide is?

Answer: HgO

Answer: HgO

Answer: HgO

Answer: HgO

Answer: HgO


Question: By sunlight, what compound did  Priestley concentrate on to make the gas he called "dephlogisticated air"?

Answer: mercuric oxide (HgO)

Answer: mercuric oxide

Answer: mercuric oxide

Answer: mercuric oxide (HgO)

Answer: mercuric oxide


Question: What chemical did Priestley use in his experiments on oxygen?

Answer: mercuric oxide

Answer: mercuric oxide

Answer: mercuric oxide

Answer: mercuric oxide (HgO)

Answer: mercuric oxide


Question: What did Priestley name the gas his experiment produced?

Answer: dephlogisticated air

Answer: dephlogisticated air

Answer: dephlogisticated air

Answer: dephlogisticated air

Answer: "dephlogisticated air


Question: In what year did Priestley publish the findings of his experiments?

Answer: 1775

Answer: 1775

Answer: 1775

Answer: 1775

Answer: 1775


Question: Why is Priestley usually given credit for being first to discover oxygen?

Answer: published his findings first

Answer: he published his findings first

Answer: he published his findings first

Answer: he published his findings first

Answer: Because he published his findings first


Question: What effect did breathing Priestley's discovered gas have on the experiment's mouse?

Answer: active

Answer: more active and lived longer

Answer: was more active and lived longer

Answer: more active and lived longer while breathing it

Answer: was more active and lived longer


Question: What inventor built on to the findings of Philo of  Byzantium?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: da Vinci


Question: Pneumatica was written by what Greek writer?

Answer: Philo of Byzantium

Answer: Philo of Byzantium

Answer: Philo

Answer: Philo

Answer: Philo of Byzantium


Question: In what year was the first known experiments on combustion and air conducted?

Answer: 2nd century BCE

Answer: 2nd century BCE

Answer: 2nd century BCE

Answer: 2nd century BCE

Answer: 2nd century BCE


Question: Philo of Byzantium ____ surmised that air converted to fire

Answer: incorrectly

Answer: incorrectly

Answer: incorrectly

Answer: incorrectly

Answer: incorrectly


Question: What early Greek wrote about experiments on air and combustion?

Answer: Philo of Byzantium

Answer: Philo of Byzantium

Answer: Philo

Answer: Philo

Answer: Philo of Byzantium


Question: What did Philo incorrectly assume that the air became?

Answer: fire

Answer: the classical element fire

Answer: fire

Answer: the classical element fire

Answer: fire


Question: What was the title of Philo's work?

Answer: Pneumatica

Answer: Pneumatica

Answer: Pneumatica

Answer: Pneumatica

Answer: Pneumatica


Question: What famous artist later further investigated Philo's experiments?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: da Vinci


Question: Of what did da Vinci think a part  was consumed during combustion?

Answer: air

Answer: air

Answer: air

Answer: air


Question: What is needed to make combustion happen?

Answer: heat or a spark

Answer: oxygen

Answer: an ignition event

Answer: an ignition event, such as heat or a spark

Answer: an ignition event


Question: Combustion is caused by an oxidant and a fuel. What role does oxygen play in combustion?

Answer: Oxygen is the oxidant

Answer: the oxidant

Answer: oxidant

Answer: oxidant

Answer: oxidant


Question: Peroxides, nitrates and dichromates are examples of what type of compounds?

Answer: compounds of oxygen with a high oxidative

Answer: compounds of oxygen with a high oxidative potential

Answer: compounds of oxygen with a high oxidative potential

Answer: compounds of oxygen with a high oxidative potential

Answer: compounds of oxygen with a high oxidative potential


Question: Although not a fuel  ___ is the chemical compound the generates the most occurrence of explosions.

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen


Question: What is a spark or heat to the progress of a fire?

Answer: ignition event

Answer: ignition event

Answer: an ignition event

Answer: ignition event

Answer: an ignition event


Question: Rather than the fuel, what is oxygen to a fire?

Answer: oxidant

Answer: the oxidant

Answer: oxidant

Answer: the oxidant

Answer: oxidant


Question: What can concentrated oxygen produce?

Answer: rapid combustion

Answer: rapid combustion

Answer: rapid combustion

Answer: rapid combustion

Answer: rapid combustion


Question: What does oxygen the basis for in combustion?

Answer: chemical energy

Answer: chemical energy

Answer: chemical energy

Answer: most of the chemical energy


Question: What other sources of high oxidative potential can add to a fire?

Answer: compounds of oxygen

Answer: peroxides, chlorates, nitrates, perchlorates, and dichromates

Answer: peroxides, chlorates, nitrates, perchlorates, and dichromates

Answer: peroxides, chlorates, nitrates, perchlorates, and dichromates

Answer: peroxides, chlorates, nitrates, perchlorates, and dichromates


Question: What chemical element was the cause of the Apollo 1 disastrous outcome?

Answer: pure O


Question: ______ In both liquid and gas form can fastly result in an exlposion.

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen


Question: To ensure safety of future space missions Oxygen was used at _____ of the normal pressure.

Answer: 1⁄3

Answer: 1⁄3

Answer: 1⁄3

Answer: 1⁄3

Answer: 1⁄3 normal pressure


Question: To reduce the chances of combustion ___ is required for safely handeling pure O.

Answer: special training

Answer: special training

Answer: special training to ensure that ignition sources are minimized

Answer: special training

Answer: special training


Question: What will concentrated oxygen greatly speed up?

Answer: combustion

Answer: combustion

Answer: combustion

Answer: combustion

Answer: combustion


Question: Because of the danger inherent in concentrated oxygen, what is a concern about keeping it?

Answer: storage vessels

Answer: fire

Answer: ensure that ignition sources are minimized

Answer: special training to ensure that ignition sources are minimized


Question: What does the transport and storage demand for safety in dealing with oxygen?

Answer: special training

Answer: special training

Answer: special training to ensure that ignition sources are minimized

Answer: special training

Answer: special training


Question: Who did a pressurized oxygen cabin fire kill?

Answer: Apollo 1 crew

Answer: the Apollo 1 crew

Answer: the Apollo 1 crew

Answer: Apollo 1 crew

Answer: the Apollo 1 crew


Question: Granite is made up largely of what chemical compound?

Answer: oxides of silicon

Answer: silicon

Answer: silicon


Question: Oxygen exists in the atmosphere by way of what?

Answer: carbon dioxide

Answer: carbon dioxide

Answer: carbon dioxide

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: Silicates of magnesium and iron make up of the Earth's ___

Answer: mantle

Answer: mantle

Answer: mantle

Answer: The Earth's mantle

Answer: mantle


Question: In what compound is oxygen found in small amounts in the atmosphere?

Answer: carbon dioxide

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: What geologic feature is composed of oxygen oxides?

Answer: Earth's crustal rock

Answer: crustal rock

Answer: Earth's crust

Answer: The Earth's crust

Answer: crustal rock


Question: What part of the Earth is composed of mostly of silicates of iron and magnesium?

Answer: Earth's mantle

Answer: The Earth's mantle

Answer: mantle

Answer: The Earth's mantle

Answer: mantle


Question: What part of the Earth's geological structure is larger than the crust?

Answer: mantle

Answer: The Earth's mantle

Answer: mantle

Answer: The Earth's mantle

Answer: mantle


Question: Aside from oxides, what other compounds comprise a large portion of the Earth's crust?

Answer: complex silicates

Answer: complex silicates

Answer: silicates

Answer: silicates

Answer: silicates (in silicate minerals)


Question: What did John Dalton think that all elements were in number present in compounds?

Answer: monatomic

Answer: monatomic

Answer: monatomic

Answer: monatomic

Answer: monatomic


Question: What did Dalton think the atomic ratios were between atoms in compounds?

Answer: simplest

Answer: simplest

Answer: simplest

Answer: simplest

Answer: the simplest


Question: What was Dalton's erroneous formula for water?

Answer: HO

Answer: HO

Answer: HO

Answer: HO

Answer: HO


Question: What element did Gay-Lussac and von Humboldt discover was present in twice the amount of oxygen in water?

Answer: hydrogen

Answer: hydrogen

Answer: hydrogen

Answer: hydrogen

Answer: hydrogen


Question: What theory was arrived at in 1811 that presented the assumption of diatomic molecules?

Answer: Avogadro's law

Answer: Avogadro's law

Answer: Avogadro's law

Answer: the correct interpretation of water's composition

Answer: Avogadro's law


Question: Of what were materials that left little residue thought to contain?

Answer: phlogiston

Answer: phlogiston

Answer: phlogiston

Answer: phlogiston

Answer: phlogiston


Question: What type of combustible materials were considered to have little philogiston?

Answer: non-combustible

Answer: non-combustible substances that corrode

Answer: wood

Answer: wood


Question: What distinct quality of combustion was  absent from philogiston theory?

Answer: Air

Answer: Air

Answer: Air

Answer: Air

Answer: a substance like wood gains overall weight in burning


Question: What material's weight gain during rusting was an early clue that philogiston theory was wrong?

Answer: metals

Answer: metals

Answer: metals

Answer: metals

Answer: metals


Question: What characteristic due most items display after burning?

Answer: become lighter

Answer: appear to become lighter

Answer: appear to become lighter

Answer: appear to become lighter and seem to lose something in the process

Answer: lighter


Question: How is dioxygen most simply described?

Answer: covalent double bond

Answer: a covalent double bond

Answer: a covalent double bond that results from the filling of molecular orbitals formed from the atomic orbitals of the individual oxygen atoms

Answer: a covalent double bond

Answer: a covalent double bond that results from the filling of molecular orbitals formed from the atomic orbitals of the individual oxygen atoms


Question: What is the bond order of dioxygen molecules?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: What is a descriptive term for a low-to-high energy bond?

Answer: Aufbau

Answer: Aufbau

Answer: Aufbau

Answer: Aufbau

Answer: Aufbau


Question: In dioxygen how are the two oxygen atoms bonded together?

Answer: chemically

Answer: chemically

Answer: a covalent double bond

Answer: a covalent double bond

Answer: a covalent double bond


Question: Of what does the covalent double bond result from ?

Answer: molecular orbitals

Answer: filling of molecular orbitals

Answer: the filling of molecular orbitals formed from the atomic orbitals of the individual oxygen atoms

Answer: the filling of molecular orbitals formed from the atomic orbitals of the individual oxygen atoms

Answer: the filling of molecular orbitals formed from the atomic orbitals of the individual oxygen atoms


Question: When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover oxygen?

Answer: 1773

Answer: 1773

Answer: 1773

Answer: 1773

Answer: 1773 or earlier


Question: In what year did Joseph Priestley recognize oxygen?

Answer: 1774

Answer: 1774

Answer: 1774

Answer: 1774

Answer: 1774


Question: What gave Priestley the claim to being the first discovered of oxygen?

Answer: work was published first

Answer: his work was published first

Answer: his work was published first

Answer: his work was published first

Answer: published first


Question: What researcher first used the word oxygen ?

Answer: Antoine Lavoisier

Answer: Antoine Lavoisier

Answer: Antoine Lavoisier

Answer: Antoine Lavoisier

Answer: Lavoisier


Question: What previous work did Lavoisier experiments discredit?

Answer: phlogiston theory

Answer: phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion

Answer: phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion

Answer: phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion

Answer: phlogiston theory


Question: What is the term for the arrangement of two unpaired electrons in dioxygen?

Answer: spin triplet state

Answer: spin triplet state

Answer: spin triplet state

Answer: spin triplet state

Answer: a spin triplet state


Question: How is the O2 molecule referred to in its ground state?

Answer: triplet oxygen

Answer: O

Answer: triplet oxygen

Answer: triplet oxygen

Answer: triplet oxygen


Question: What causes triplet oxygen to react slowly?

Answer: unpaired electrons

Answer: its unpaired electrons

Answer: its unpaired electrons

Answer: Because of its unpaired electrons

Answer: unpaired electrons


Question: What type of combustion does the slow reaction of triplet oxygen prevent?

Answer: spontaneous

Answer: spontaneous combustion

Answer: spontaneous

Answer: spontaneous

Answer: spontaneous combustion


Question: What are the weakly filled higher orbitals of oxygen?

Answer: antibonding

Answer: antibonding

Answer: antibonding

Answer: antibonding

Answer: antibonding


Question: What did Lavoisier conclude was consumed by combustion in his experiments?

Answer: air

Answer: air

Answer: air

Answer: part of the trapped air

Answer: air


Question: In what way did Lavoisier see that the tin he used in his experiment had increased?

Answer: weight

Answer: weight

Answer: weight

Answer: that increase was the same as the weight of the air that rushed back in

Answer: the tin had increased in weight and that increase was the same as the weight of the air that rushed back in


Question: What did Lavoisier perceive the air had lost as much as the tin had gained

Answer: weight

Answer: weight

Answer: weight

Answer: weight

Answer: weight


Question: In what year did Lavoisier publish his work on combustion?

Answer: 1777

Answer: 1777

Answer: 1777

Answer: 1777

Answer: 1777


Question: What second part of air was deemed lifeless by Lavoisier?

Answer: azote

Answer: azote

Answer: azote

Answer: azote

Answer: azote


Question: What is the name for O3 most often used?

Answer: ozone

Answer: ozone

Answer: ozone

Answer: Trioxygen

Answer: Ozone


Question: Of what is ozone a reactive part of oxygen?

Answer: allotrope

Answer: allotrope

Answer: allotrope

Answer: allotrope

Answer: allotrope


Question: What  does ozone's characteristic to cause damage effect?

Answer: lung tissue

Answer: lung tissue

Answer: lung tissue

Answer: lung

Answer: lung tissue


Question: What function does ozone perform for the planet?

Answer: protective radiation shield

Answer: protective radiation shield

Answer: protective radiation shield

Answer: radiation shield

Answer: a protective radiation shield


Question: What light radiation does ozone absorb?

Answer: UV

Answer: ultraviolet

Answer: UV

Answer: ultraviolet (UV)

Answer: ultraviolet


Question: What is the most common form of oxygen on the planet?

Answer: dioxygen

Answer: dioxygen

Answer: dioxygen

Answer: dioxygen


Question: What is the scientific designation of oxygen?

Answer: O2


Question: What part the composition of the Earth's atmosphere is comprised of oxygen?

Answer: major

Answer: major

Answer: major

Answer: a major part

Answer: major


Question: What characteristic of oxygen makes it necessary to life?

Answer: energy content

Answer: its energy content

Answer: energy content

Answer: energy content

Answer: its energy content


Question: For what purpose is oxygen used by animal life?

Answer: cellular respiration

Answer: cellular respiration

Answer: cellular respiration

Answer: in cellular respiration

Answer: cellular respiration


Question: What chemist managed to make enough liquid oxygen to use for study?

Answer: James Dewar

Answer: James Dewar

Answer: James Dewar

Answer: Dewar

Answer: James Dewar


Question: In what year did Dewar experiment on liquid oxygen?

Answer: 1891

Answer: 1891

Answer: 1891

Answer: 1891

Answer: 1891


Question: When was liquid oxygen developed for commercial use?

Answer: 1895

Answer: 1895

Answer: 1895

Answer: 1895

Answer: 1895


Question: What welding process was demonstrated in 1901?

Answer: oxyacetylene

Answer: oxyacetylene welding

Answer: oxyacetylene welding

Answer: oxyacetylene welding

Answer: oxyacetylene


Question: What component of water is more soluble than nitrogen?

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Oxygen


Question: Upon what chemical characteristic is oxygen's solubility dependent?

Answer: temperature

Answer: temperature

Answer: temperature

Answer: temperature

Answer: temperature


Question: How much oxygen is found is a liter of fresh water under normal conditions?

Answer: 6.04 milliliters

Answer: 6.04 milliliters

Answer: 6.04 milliliters

Answer: 6.04 milliliters

Answer: 6.04 milliliters


Question: In what type of water does oxygen dissolve more slowly?

Answer: seawater

Answer: seawater

Answer: seawater

Answer: seawater

Answer: sea water


Question: How much more oxygen dissolves at 0 degrees C than at 20 degrees C?

Answer: twice

Answer: 50% more

Answer: about twice as much

Answer: twice as much

Answer: twice


Question: Where does oxygen rank by mass in the planet's biosphere?

Answer: most abundant

Answer: most

Answer: most abundant

Answer: most abundant

Answer: most abundant


Question: How is oxygen ranked as abundant in the universe?

Answer: third

Answer: third

Answer: third

Answer: third most abundant

Answer: third


Question: How much of the sun is made up of oxygen?

Answer: 0.9%

Answer: 0.9%

Answer: About 0.9%

Answer: 0.9%

Answer: 0.9%


Question: Where  by mass is oxygen a major part?

Answer: world's oceans

Answer: the world's oceans

Answer: in the Earth's biosphere, air, sea and land

Answer: oceans

Answer: the world's oceans


Question: How is oxygen produced from carbon dioxide on the other planets of the solar system?

Answer: ultraviolet radiation

Answer: ultraviolet radiation

Answer: ultraviolet radiation impacting oxygen-containing molecules

Answer: ultraviolet radiation impacting oxygen-containing molecules

Answer: ultraviolet radiation impacting oxygen-containing molecules such as carbon dioxide


Question: By what century did researchers see that they could liquefy air?

Answer: late 19th

Answer: 19th

Answer: 19th

Answer: late 19th century

Answer: 19th


Question: By what means were scientists able to liquefy air?

Answer: compressing and cooling

Answer: compressing and cooling

Answer: cascade method

Answer: compressing and cooling it

Answer: compressing and cooling


Question: What scientist told the French Academy of Sciences that he had found how to liquefy oxygen?

Answer: Raoul Pierre Pictet

Answer: Raoul Pierre Pictet

Answer: Pierre Pictet

Answer: Pictet

Answer: Raoul Pierre Pictet


Question: What minor amount of liquid oxygen was produced by early French experimenters?

Answer: few drops

Answer: a few drops

Answer: a few drops

Answer: a few drops

Answer: Only a few drops


Question: On what date was oxygen liquefied in a stable form?

Answer: March 29, 1883

Answer: March 29, 1883

Answer: March 29, 1883

Answer: March 29, 1883

Answer: March 29, 1883


Question: What celestial object eluded efforts to measure oxygen?

Answer: Sun

Answer: the Sun

Answer: the Sun

Answer: Sun

Answer: the Sun


Question: What molecule does the Sun have in higher proportion than Earth?

Answer: oxygen-16

Answer: oxygen-16

Answer: oxygen-16

Answer: oxygen-16

Answer: oxygen-16


Question: What spacecraft contained data to determine the oxygen content of the Sun?

Answer: Genesis spacecraft

Answer: Genesis

Answer: Genesis

Answer: Genesis

Answer: Genesis


Question: What type of process was involved the the depletion of the Sun's oxygen 16?

Answer: unknown

Answer: an unknown process

Answer: unknown

Answer: unknown

Answer: an unknown process


Question: Before the formation of which planet, did Sol lose oxygen 16?

Answer: Earth

Answer: Earth

Answer: Earth

Answer: the Earth

Answer: Earth


Question: What is the name for a form of oxygen in which electrons are paired?

Answer: Singlet

Answer: Singlet oxygen

Answer: Singlet oxygen

Answer: Singlet

Answer: Singlet oxygen


Question: To what is singlet oxygen more reactive?

Answer: organic molecules

Answer: common organic molecules

Answer: common organic molecules

Answer: common organic molecules

Answer: common organic molecules


Question: In what process is singlet oxygen usually formed?

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis


Question: By what process is singlet oxygen made in the tropophere?

Answer: photolysis of ozone

Answer: photolysis of ozone

Answer: photolysis of ozone by light of short wavelength

Answer: photolysis of ozone by light of short wavelength

Answer: photolysis


Question: What objects in organisms absorb singlet oxygen to prevent harm?

Answer: Carotenoids

Answer: Carotenoids

Answer: Carotenoids

Answer: Carotenoids

Answer: Carotenoids


Question: What group of scientists seek to measure the amounts of oxygen in marine animals?

Answer: Paleoclimatologists

Answer: Paleoclimatologists

Answer: Paleoclimatologists

Answer: Paleoclimatologists

Answer: Paleoclimatologists


Question: About what weather feature do paleoclimatologists want information ?

Answer: climate

Answer: climate

Answer: temperatures

Answer: climate

Answer: what the climate was like millions of years ago


Question: How much heavier is oxygen 18 than oxygen 16?

Answer: 12%

Answer: 12%

Answer: 12%

Answer: 12%

Answer: 12%


Question: What form of oxygen do marine animals acquire in greater amounts during cooler climatic conditions?

Answer: oxygen-18

Answer: oxygen-18

Answer: oxygen-16

Answer: oxygen-18

Answer: oxygen-18


Question: During what type of climate is oxygen 18 in seawater at higher levels?

Answer: lower global temperatures

Answer: periods of lower global temperatures

Answer: lower temperatures

Answer: periods of lower global temperatures

Answer: lower global temperatures


Question: At what wavelength do the spectrophotometric bands peak?

Answer: 687 and 760 nm

Answer: 687 and 760 nm

Answer: 687 and 760 nm

Answer: 687 and 760 nm

Answer: 687 and 760 nm


Question: To monitor what event would measuring radiance from vegetation provide information?

Answer: carbon cycle

Answer: plant health status

Answer: the carbon cycle

Answer: plant health status

Answer: carbon cycle


Question: From where would scientists like measure vegetation radiance?

Answer: satellite platform

Answer: a satellite platform

Answer: satellites

Answer: a satellite platform

Answer: satellite


Question: On what scale would scientists show measurements of vegetation?

Answer: global

Answer: a global scale

Answer: global

Answer: global

Answer: a global scale


Question: What style of sensing do scientist like to use to measure global radiance?

Answer: remote sensing

Answer: remote

Answer: remote

Answer: remote sensing

Answer: remote


Question: What magnetic character do triplet O2 have?

Answer: paramagnetic

Answer: paramagnetic

Answer: paramagnetic

Answer: paramagnetic

Answer: paramagnetic


Question: In experiments, a bridge of what element can be built between poles of a magnet?

Answer: Liquid oxygen

Answer: liquid oxygen

Answer: liquid oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: liquid oxygen


Question: The spin of what can produce a magnetic effect to oxygen molecules?

Answer: unpaired electrons

Answer: unpaired electrons

Answer: unpaired electrons

Answer: unpaired electrons in the molecule

Answer: unpaired electrons


Question: What kind of field is necessary to produce a magnet effect in oxygen molecules?

Answer: magnetic field

Answer: magnetic

Answer: magnetic

Answer: magnetic field

Answer: magnetic


Question: What device is used to test the magnetic attractions involved in liquid oxygen?

Answer: powerful magnet

Answer: a powerful magnet

Answer: a powerful magnet

Answer: a powerful magnet

Answer: magnet


Question: What do the reactive forms of oxygen produce in organisms?

Answer: dangerous by-products

Answer: the immune system

Answer: hypersensitive response of plants against pathogen attack

Answer: dangerous by-products of oxygen use in organisms


Question: For what purpose do organisms make peroxide and superoxide?

Answer: destroy invading microbes

Answer: to destroy invading microbes

Answer: destroy invading microbes

Answer: to destroy invading microbes

Answer: destroy invading microbes


Question: Against what does reactive oxygen play in plant defense?

Answer: pathogen attack

Answer: pathogen attack

Answer: pathogen attack

Answer: pathogen attack

Answer: pathogen


Question: To what type of organisms is oxygen toxic?

Answer: anaerobic

Answer: obligately anaerobic organisms

Answer: obligately anaerobic

Answer: obligately anaerobic

Answer: obligately anaerobic organisms


Question: When did O2 begin to acculturate in the atmosphere?

Answer: 2.5 billion years ago

Answer: 2.5 billion years ago

Answer: about 2.5 billion years ago

Answer: about 2.5 billion years ago

Answer: 2.5 billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event


Question: At what temperature will oxygen condense?

Answer: 90.20 K

Answer: 90.20 K

Answer: 90.20 K (−182.95 °C, −297.31 °F)

Answer: 90.20 K

Answer: 90.20 K (−182.95 °C, −297.31 °F)


Question: What is the clarity of liquid oxygen?

Answer: clear

Answer: clear substances with a light sky-blue color

Answer: clear

Answer: clear

Answer: clear


Question: What substance is used to make high quality liquid O2?

Answer: liquefied air

Answer: liquefied air

Answer: liquefied air

Answer: air

Answer: liquefied air


Question: What element is used as a coolant in the process of making liquid oxygen?

Answer: liquid nitrogen

Answer: liquid nitrogen

Answer: liquid nitrogen

Answer: liquid nitrogen

Answer: nitrogen


Question: From what type of materials must liquid oxygen be separated?

Answer: combustible materials

Answer: combustible materials

Answer: combustible

Answer: combustible

Answer: combustible materials


Question: Where on Earth is free oxygen found?

Answer: water

Answer: in solution in the world's water bodies

Answer: the world's water bodies


Question: At what temperatures is O2 more soluble?

Answer: lower

Answer: lower

Answer: lower

Answer: lower

Answer: lower temperatures


Question: Why do polar water bodies support a higher amount of life?

Answer: higher oxygen content

Answer: higher oxygen content

Answer: higher oxygen content

Answer: higher oxygen content

Answer: due to their higher oxygen content


Question: Pollution of water by nitrates and phosphates will encourage the growth of what?

Answer: algae

Answer: algae

Answer: algae

Answer: algae

Answer: algae


Question: What measurement do scientists used to determine the quality of water?

Answer: biochemical oxygen demand

Answer: biochemical oxygen demand

Answer: measuring the water's biochemical oxygen demand

Answer: biochemical oxygen demand

Answer: measuring the water's biochemical oxygen demand


Question: When did photosynthetic organisms evolve on Earth?

Answer: 3.5 billion years ago

Answer: about 3.5 billion years ago

Answer: about 3.5 billion years ago

Answer: 3.5 billion years ago

Answer: about 3.5 billion years ago


Question: During which eon did free oxygen begin appearing in quantity?

Answer: Paleoproterozoic

Answer: Paleoproterozoic

Answer: Paleoproterozoic

Answer: Paleoproterozoic

Answer: the Paleoproterozoic eon


Question: At first, what did oxygen and iron combine to form?

Answer: banded iron formations

Answer: banded iron formations

Answer: banded iron formations

Answer: banded iron formations

Answer: banded iron


Question: How long ago did oxygen reach 10% of its present level?

Answer: 1.7 billion years ago

Answer: 1.7 billion years ago

Answer: 1.7 billion years ago

Answer: 1.7 billion years ago

Answer: around 1.7 billion years ago


Question: When did oxygen begin to move from the oceans to the atmosphere?

Answer: 3–2.7 billion years ago

Answer: 3–2.7 billion years ago

Answer: 3–2.7 billion years ago

Answer: 3–2.7 billion years ago

Answer: 3–2.7 billion years ago


Question: What produces the high levels of oxygen on Earth?

Answer: oxygen cycle

Answer: the oxygen cycle

Answer: oxygen cycle

Answer: oxygen cycle

Answer: the oxygen cycle


Question: What type of process is the oxygen cycle?

Answer: biogeochemical

Answer: biogeochemical

Answer: biogeochemical

Answer: biogeochemical cycle

Answer: biogeochemical


Question: In how many places is oxygen stored in its cycle?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three main reservoirs

Answer: three


Question: What process is responsible for the planet's oxygen content?

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis

Answer: photosynthesis


Question: What does photosynthesis release into the Earth's atmosphere?

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen


Question: What mechanism can be used to make oxygen?

Answer: zeolite molecular sieves

Answer: zeolite molecular sieves

Answer: passing a stream of clean, dry air through one bed of a pair of identical zeolite molecular sieves

Answer: passing a stream of clean, dry air through one bed of a pair of identical zeolite molecular sieves, which absorbs the nitrogen

Answer: passing a stream of clean, dry air through one bed of a pair of identical zeolite molecular sieves


Question: What percentage of oxygen will a zeolite sieve produce?

Answer: 90% to 93%

Answer: 90% to 93%

Answer: 90% to 93%

Answer: 90% to 93%

Answer: 90% to 93%


Question: While producing oxygen, what gas does a zeolite sieve absorb?

Answer: nitrogen

Answer: nitrogen

Answer: nitrogen

Answer: nitrogen

Answer: nitrogen


Question: What type of technology is the non organic separating of gases?

Answer: non-cryogenic

Answer: non-cryogenic

Answer: non-cryogenic

Answer: non-cryogenic

Answer: non-cryogenic


Question: How much is the sieve method of gas production used?

Answer: major method

Answer: increasingly

Answer: major method

Answer: increasingly


Question: Electrolysis of what can be used to produce oxygen and hydrogen?

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: water


Question: What does the electrolysis of water produce?

Answer: oxygen and hydrogen

Answer: oxygen and hydrogen

Answer: molecular oxygen and hydrogen

Answer: molecular oxygen and hydrogen

Answer: Oxygen gas


Question: What type of electric current is needed for electrolysis?

Answer: DC

Answer: DC electricity

Answer: DC

Answer: DC electricity


Question: What is the source of oxygen production through electrocatalytic means?

Answer: oxides and oxoacids

Answer: oxides and oxoacids

Answer: oxides and oxoacids

Answer: oxides and oxoacids

Answer: oxides and oxoacids


Question: What other catalysts can be used to produce oxygen?

Answer: Chemical

Answer: Chemical

Answer: Chemical

Answer: chemical oxygen generators or oxygen candles

Answer: Chemical


Question: As a euphoric how is oxygen used in bars?

Answer: recreational

Answer: recreational

Answer: recreational


Question: What is the effect on humans of oxygen?

Answer: mild euphoric

Answer: a supposed mild euphoric

Answer: a supposed mild euphoric

Answer: euphoric


Question: What do professional athletes seek to boost from breathing oxygen?

Answer: performance

Answer: performance

Answer: performance

Answer: performance

Answer: a "boost" in performance


Question: What is the most likely effect of breathing oxygen?

Answer: placebo

Answer: placebo

Answer: placebo

Answer: a placebo effect

Answer: placebo


Question: What type of exercise does research show receives a boost in performance from oxygen?

Answer: aerobic

Answer: aerobic

Answer: aerobic

Answer: aerobic

Answer: aerobic exercise


Question: What device is used to treat various conditions such as carbon monoxide poisoning?

Answer: Hyperbaric (high-pressure) medicine

Answer: special oxygen chambers

Answer: oxygen chambers

Answer: oxygen chambers

Answer: oxygen chambers


Question: What does increased oxygen concentrations in the patient's lungs displace?

Answer: carbon monoxide

Answer: carbon monoxide

Answer: carbon monoxide

Answer: carbon monoxide

Answer: carbon monoxide


Question: To what pathogen that causes gas gangrene is oxygen poisonous?

Answer: anaerobic bacteria

Answer: anaerobic bacteria

Answer: anaerobic bacteria

Answer: anaerobic bacteria

Answer: anaerobic bacteria


Question: What occurs after a dive in which a diver decompresses too quickly?

Answer: Decompression sickness

Answer: bubbles of inert gas, mostly nitrogen and helium, forming in their blood

Answer: Decompression sickness

Answer: decompression sickness (the 'bends')

Answer: Decompression sickness


Question: What medical treatment is used to benefit patients with hearth and lung disorders?

Answer: Oxygen therapy

Answer: Oxygen therapy

Answer: Oxygen therapy

Answer: Oxygen therapy

Answer: Oxygen therapy


Question: By decreasing resistance to blood flow in the lungs, what organ's workload  can be eased?

Answer: heart

Answer: the heart

Answer: heart

Answer: the heart

Answer: heart


Question: What medical treatment is used to increase oxygen uptake in a patient?

Answer: oxygen supplementation

Answer: oxygen supplementation

Answer: oxygen supplementation

Answer: Oxygen therapy

Answer: Oxygen therapy


Question: In what process is the uptake from oxygen necessary?

Answer: respiration

Answer: respiration

Answer: respiration

Answer: respiration

Answer: respiration


Question: What does  oxygen therapy promote the body to take up?

Answer: gaseous oxygen.

Answer: gaseous oxygen

Answer: gaseous oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: gaseous oxygen


Question: What characteristic of oxygen causes it to form bonds with other elements?

Answer: electronegativity

Answer: electronegativity

Answer: electronegativity

Answer: electronegativity

Answer: electronegativity


Question: What is usual form of oxygen bound compounds?

Answer: oxides

Answer: oxides

Answer: oxides

Answer: oxides

Answer: oxides


Question: What is the mineral wustite?

Answer: FeO

Answer: FeO

Answer: FeO

Answer: FeO

Answer: FeO


Question: What does oxygen cause to form on metals?

Answer: oxide

Answer: a thin film of oxide

Answer: a thin film of oxide

Answer: oxide

Answer: a thin film of oxide


Question: What does the film of oxide on metals delay?

Answer: corrosion

Answer: further corrosion

Answer: further corrosion

Answer: further corrosion

Answer: corrosion


Question: What event would necessitate airline passengers to need a supplemental supply of oxygen?

Answer: cabin depressurization

Answer: cabin depressurization

Answer: cabin depressurization

Answer: cabin depressurization

Answer: depressurization


Question: What is the type of oxygen production for emergency oxygen in airlines?

Answer: chemical

Answer: chemical oxygen

Answer: chemical

Answer: chemical oxygen generators

Answer: chemical


Question: What type of reaction is present in the emergency oxygen generator of an airplane?

Answer: exothermic

Answer: exothermic

Answer: exothermic

Answer: exothermic

Answer: exothermic reaction


Question: What gas does the airline exothermic reaction produce?

Answer: oxygen gas

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen

Answer: oxygen


Question: What do oxygen tanks, cryogenics, and chemical compounds serve as for oxygen?

Answer: storage

Answer: storage

Answer: storage methods

Answer: storage

Answer: storage methods


Question: By what means is bulk oxygen shipped?

Answer: insulated tankers

Answer: insulated tankers

Answer: insulated tankers

Answer: specially insulated tankers


Question: In what state is oxygen shipped in bulk?

Answer: liquid

Answer: as a liquid

Answer: liquid

Answer: as a liquid in specially insulated tankers


Question: In what form is oxygen transported in smaller containers?

Answer: compressed gas

Answer: compressed gas

Answer: compressed gas;

Answer: compressed gas

Answer: compressed gas


Question: What type of organization would need large quantities of pure oxygen?

Answer: hospitals

Answer: hospitals

Answer: hospitals

Answer: hospitals

Answer: hospitals


Question: What type of compounds such as acetone,contain oxygen?

Answer: organic solvents

Answer: organic solvents

Answer: organic solvents

Answer: solvents

Answer: organic solvents


Question: In what group of compounds is oxygen a necessary part?

Answer: organic compounds

Answer: organic

Answer: solvents

Answer: organic solvents


Question: What function do compounds like phenol and acetone serve in the manufacture of many other substances?

Answer: feeder materials

Answer: as feeder materials

Answer: feeder materials

Answer: feeder materials

Answer: as feeder materials


Question: In what compound is oxygen part of a ring arrangement?

Answer: Epoxides

Answer: Epoxides

Answer: Epoxides

Answer: Epoxides

Answer: Epoxides


Question: How are the compounds that contain oxygen considered in commerce?

Answer: important

Answer: important

Answer: important

Answer: important


Question: In what type of molecules are oxygen found?

Answer: biomolecules

Answer: biomolecules

Answer: biomolecules

Answer: biomolecules

Answer: almost all biomolecules that are important to (or generated by) life


Question: How many biomolecules contain no oxygen?

Answer: Only a few

Answer: Only a few

Answer: a few

Answer: Only a few

Answer: a few


Question: Which organic compounds contain the greatest amount of oxygen by mass?

Answer: carbohydrates

Answer: carbohydrates

Answer: carbohydrates

Answer: carbohydrates

Answer: carbohydrates


Question: Besides fats, fatty acids, and amino acids,what other organic compounds contain oxygen?

Answer: proteins

Answer: proteins

Answer: proteins

Answer: proteins

Answer: proteins


Question: In what calcium containing body part is oxygen a part?

Answer: bones

Answer: bones

Answer: bones

Answer: bones

Answer: bones


Question: What health condition can deep sea diving cause?

Answer: Oxygen toxicity

Answer: Oxygen toxicity

Answer: Oxygen toxicity

Answer: Oxygen toxicity

Answer: Oxygen toxicity to the lungs and central nervous system


Question: To what can the use of prolonged breathing of oxygen at 60 kPa lead?

Answer: pulmonary fibrosis

Answer: permanent pulmonary fibrosis

Answer: permanent pulmonary fibrosis

Answer: permanent pulmonary fibrosis

Answer: pulmonary fibrosis


Question: Pressures greater than what can lead to convulsions?

Answer: 160 kPa

Answer: 160 kPa

Answer: 160 kPa (about 1.6 atm)

Answer: 160 kPa (about 1.6 atm)

Answer: 160 kPa


Question: What is the most feared condition that divers want to avoid?

Answer: Acute oxygen toxicity

Answer: Acute oxygen toxicity

Answer: seizures

Answer: seizures

Answer: seizures


Question: What physical condition can acute oxygen toxicity cause?

Answer: seizures

Answer: seizures

Answer: seizures

Answer: seizures

Answer: seizures


Question: Why is breathing oxygen in space craft not dangerous to health?

Answer: low total pressures

Answer: low total pressures used

Answer: low total pressures

Answer: low total pressures

Answer: the low total pressures used


Question: What is the oxygen partial pressure of space suits?

Answer: 30 kPa

Answer: about 30 kPa

Answer: about 30 kPa

Answer: 30 kPa

Answer: about 30 kPa (1.4 times normal)


Question: How much of normal is the oxygen breathed in space suits?

Answer: 1.4 times normal

Answer: 1.4 times

Answer: 1.4 times

Answer: 1.4 times normal

Answer: 1.4 times normal


Question: How much damage does breathing oxygen in space conditions cause?

Answer: no damage

Answer: no damage

Answer: no

Answer: no

Answer: no damage


Question: What si the comparison to sea level with the oxygen level in space suits?

Answer: only marginally more

Answer: marginally more than normal

Answer: marginally more

Answer: marginally more

Answer: only marginally more


Question: When can oxygen gas produce a toxic condition?

Answer: at elevated partial pressures

Answer: elevated partial pressures

Answer: at elevated partial pressures

Answer: at elevated partial pressures

Answer: elevated partial pressures


Question: At what point does oxygen toxicity begin to happen?

Answer: 50 kilopascals

Answer: at partial pressures more than 50 kilopascals

Answer: 50 kilopascals

Answer: more than 50 kilopascals

Answer: at partial pressures more than 50 kilopascals


Question: To what is 50 kilopascals equal?

Answer: 50% oxygen

Answer: about 50% oxygen composition at standard pressure

Answer: about 50% oxygen composition at standard pressure


Question: What medical appliance can be a concern for oxygen toxicity?

Answer: mechanical ventilators

Answer: mechanical ventilators

Answer: mechanical ventilators

Answer: oxygen masks

Answer: mechanical ventilators


Question: What percentage of oxygen is usually supplied by a medical mask?

Answer: 30%–50%

Answer: 30%–50%

Answer: 30%–50%

Answer: 30%–50%


Question: When did the 1973 oil crisis begin?

Answer: October 1973

Answer: October 1973

Answer: October 1973

Answer: October

Answer: 1973


Question: What was the price of oil in March of 1974?

Answer: nearly $12

Answer: $12

Answer: $12

Answer: $12

Answer: $12


Question: When was the second oil crisis?

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979


Question: What was another term used for the oil crisis?

Answer: first oil shock

Answer: shock

Answer: shock

Answer: first oil shock

Answer: shock


Question: Who proclaimed the oil embargo?

Answer: members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries

Answer: members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries

Answer: Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries

Answer: members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries

Answer: OAPEC


Question: Why did the European nations and Japan separated themselves from United States during the crisis?

Answer: to avoid being targeted by the boycott

Answer: to avoid being targeted by the boycott

Answer: to avoid being targeted by the boycott

Answer: to avoid being targeted by the boycott

Answer: to avoid being targeted by the boycott


Question: How did the Nixon administration negotiate with the uncooperative countries?

Answer: They arranged for Israel to pull back from the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.

Answer: multilateral

Answer: They arranged for Israel to pull back from the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights

Answer: multilateral negotiations

Answer: multilateral


Question: On what date did Henry Kissinger negotiate an Israeli troop withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula?

Answer: January 18, 1974,

Answer: January 18, 1974

Answer: January 18, 1974

Answer: January 18, 1974

Answer: January 18, 1974


Question: When did the Arab oil producers lift the embargo?

Answer: March 1974

Answer: March 1974

Answer: March 1974

Answer: March 1974.

Answer: March 1974


Question: When did the United States withdraw from the Bretton Woods Accord?

Answer: On August 15, 1971

Answer: August 15, 1971

Answer: August 15, 1971

Answer: August 15, 1971

Answer: August 15, 1971


Question: What does it mean when currencies are left to "float?"

Answer: to "float" (rise and fall according to market demand)

Answer: (rise and fall according to market demand

Answer: rise and fall according to market demand

Answer: rise and fall according to market demand

Answer: rise and fall according to market demand


Question: Why was there a depreciation of the industrialized nations dollars?

Answer: industrialized nations increased their reserves

Answer: industrialized nations increased their reserves (by expanding their money supplies) in amounts far greater than before

Answer: industrialized nations increased their reserves

Answer: industrialized nations increased their reserves

Answer: the industrialized nations increased their reserves


Question: When did oil start getting priced in the terms of gold?

Answer: In September 1971

Answer: September 1971

Answer: September 1971

Answer: September 1971

Answer: September 1971


Question: Why did oil start getting priced in terms of gold?

Answer: oil was priced in dollars, oil producers' real income decreased

Answer: Because oil was priced in dollars, oil producers' real income decreased.

Answer: Because oil was priced in dollars, oil producers' real income decreased

Answer: Because oil was priced in dollars, oil producers' real income decreased

Answer: Because oil was priced in dollars, oil producers' real income decreased


Question: From 1947 to 1967, how much did the price of oil increase?

Answer: risen by less than two percent per year

Answer: less than two percent per year

Answer: less than two percent per year

Answer: by less than two percent per year

Answer: less than two percent per year


Question: When did OPEC start to readjust oil prices?

Answer: After 1971

Answer: 1973–1974

Answer: 1971

Answer: After 1971

Answer: 1971


Question: When did oil finally returned to its Bretton Woods levels?

Answer: 1973–1974

Answer: 1974

Answer: 1973–1974

Answer: 1973–1974

Answer: 1973–1974


Question: The price of oil is usually a stable commodity until when?

Answer: Until the oil shock

Answer: the oil shock

Answer: the oil shock

Answer: Until the oil shock

Answer: the oil shock


Question: When did Syria and Egypt launch a surprise attack on Israel?

Answer: On October 6, 1973

Answer: October 6, 1973

Answer: October 6, 1973

Answer: October 6, 1973

Answer: October 6, 1973


Question: Who was the world's second largest oil producer?

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran


Question: How many times more did the other nations have to pay for oil after the surprise attack?

Answer: ten times more

Answer: ten

Answer: a hundred

Answer: ten


Question: Which oil producer is a close ally of the United States?

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran

Answer: Iran


Question: Why did the Shah of Iran gave an interview?

Answer: renewal of hostilities in the Arab–Israeli conflict

Answer: renewal of hostilities

Answer: the Arab–Israeli conflict released the underlying economic pressure on oil prices


Question: Why did OPEC raise the price of oil to $5.11?

Answer: In response to American aid to Israel

Answer: In response to American aid to Israel

Answer: In response to American aid to Israel

Answer: In response to American aid to Israel

Answer: American aid to Israel


Question: When did they raise the price of oil to $5.11?

Answer: October 16, 1973,

Answer: October 16, 1973

Answer: October 16, 1973

Answer: October 16, 1973

Answer: October 16, 1973


Question: Why did the oil ministers agree to a cut in oil production?

Answer: until their economic and political objectives were met

Answer: In response to American aid to Israel

Answer: OPEC raised the posted price of oil

Answer: until their economic and political objectives were met


Question: How much was the emergency aid to Israel?

Answer: $2.2 billion

Answer: $2.2 billion

Answer: $2.2 billion

Answer: $2.2 billion

Answer: $2.2 billion


Question: Why did OPEC block oil deliveries to the United States?

Answer: American aid to Israel

Answer: Nixon requested Congress to appropriate $2.2 billion in emergency aid to Israel

Answer: OAPEC proclaimed the embargo that curbed exports to various countries and blocked all oil deliveries to the US as a "principal hostile country

Answer: OAPEC proclaimed the embargo that curbed exports to various countries

Answer: American aid to Israel


Question: How much did Saudi Arabia spend on spreading Wahhabism?

Answer: over 100 billion dollars

Answer: over 100 billion dollars

Answer: over 100 billion dollars

Answer: over 100 billion dollars

Answer: 100 billion dollars


Question: Which group benefited from the funds distributed by the religious charity, al-Haramain Foundation?

Answer: Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

Answer: violent Sunni extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

Answer: Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

Answer: Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

Answer: Al-Qaeda and the Taliban


Question: Some of the income went to the purchase of arms which exacerbated political tension especially in which area?

Answer: Middle East

Answer: Middle East

Answer: Middle East

Answer: Middle East

Answer: Middle East


Question: What is one of the reason that underdeveloped nations received aid from the oil income?

Answer: shrinking Western demand

Answer: shrinking Western demand

Answer: economies had been caught between higher oil prices and lower prices for their own export commodities

Answer: economies had been caught between higher oil prices and lower prices for their own export commodities

Answer: shrinking Western demand


Question: What is a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam called?

Answer: Wahhabism

Answer: Wahhabism

Answer: Wahhabism

Answer: Wahhabism

Answer: Wahhabism


Question: What is one of the reason that US production has been held responsible for recessions and lower economic growth?

Answer: distribution and price disruptions

Answer: reduced productivity

Answer: distribution and price disruptions

Answer: distribution and price disruptions


Question: US is concerned about confrontation of the Middle East with which other country?

Answer: USSR

Answer: USSR

Answer: USSR

Answer: USSR

Answer: USSR


Question: Scholars stated that there was already an existing settlement between 2 parties prior to which date?

Answer: 1973

Answer: 1973

Answer: 1973

Answer: 1973


Question: Interest groups and government agencies that were concerned with energy were no match for who?

Answer: Kissinger

Answer: Kissinger

Answer: Kissinger

Answer: Kissinger's

Answer: Kissinger


Question: What has a negative influence over the US economy?

Answer: The embargo

Answer: The embargo

Answer: The embargo

Answer: The embargo

Answer: embargo


Question: On an international level, which industry's competitive positions is affected?

Answer: automobiles

Answer: automobiles

Answer: automobiles

Answer: automobiles

Answer: automobiles


Question: Which problem consists of both  inflationary and deflationary impacts?

Answer: Macroeconomic problems

Answer: Macroeconomic

Answer: Macroeconomic

Answer: Macroeconomic

Answer: Macroeconomic


Question: The oil crisis caused oil companies to increase oil supplies in which area?

Answer: Arctic

Answer: Arctic

Answer: Arctic

Answer: the Arctic

Answer: the Arctic


Question: How long does it take for new areas to have significant oil production?

Answer: five to ten years

Answer: five to ten years

Answer: five to ten years

Answer: five to ten years

Answer: five to ten years


Question: Which country faced a complete embargo in the EEC?

Answer: Netherlands

Answer: Netherlands

Answer: the Netherlands

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: The UK and France had non interruptions in their oil supply as they did not allow which country to use their airfield?

Answer: America

Answer: America

Answer: America

Answer: America


Question: Which country is a traditional ally of Israel?

Answer: UK

Answer: UK

Answer: The UK

Answer: The UK


Question: Harold WInston's supported which country's during its six day war?

Answer: Israel

Answer: Israel

Answer: Israelis

Answer: the Israelis


Question: Who wanted Israel to withdraw from its border?

Answer: Ted Heath

Answer: Ted Heath

Answer: Ted Heath

Answer: Ted Heath


Question: Which country is not badly hit by the embargo?

Answer: UK

Answer: UK

Answer: UK

Answer: the UK

Answer: UK


Question: What caused UK to have an oil crisis in its own country?

Answer: a series of strikes

Answer: a series of strikes by coal miners and railroad workers

Answer: a series of strikes by coal miners and railroad workers

Answer: strikes by coal miners and railroad workers

Answer: a series of strikes


Question: When did the series of strikes happen?

Answer: winter of 1973–74

Answer: over the winter of 1973–74

Answer: 1973–74

Answer: winter of 1973–74

Answer: the winter of 1973–74


Question: Name one country that banned boating, driving and flying on Sundays.

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany

Answer: Italy

Answer: Norway


Question: Which country rationed gasoline and heating gas?

Answer: Sweden

Answer: Sweden

Answer: Sweden

Answer: Sweden

Answer: Sweden


Question: What made the oil crisis worse in the US?

Answer: Price controls

Answer: Price controls

Answer: Price controls

Answer: Price controls

Answer: Price controls


Question: Why are newly discovered oil sold at a higher price?

Answer: encourage investment

Answer: to encourage investment

Answer: to encourage investment

Answer: to encourage investment

Answer: The system limited the price of "old oil"


Question: Why was old oil withdrawn from the market?

Answer: Price controls

Answer: Price controls

Answer: promote oil exploration

Answer: discouraged development of alternative energies

Answer: The system limited the price of "old oil"


Question: How was scarcity managed in many countries?

Answer: rationing

Answer: rationing

Answer: rationing

Answer: rationing

Answer: rationing


Question: Who is the first administrator of the Federal Energy Office?

Answer: William E. Simon

Answer: William E. Simon

Answer: William E. Simon

Answer: William E. Simon

Answer: William E. Simon


Question: When was he elected by Nixon?

Answer: In 1973

Answer: 1973

Answer: 1973

Answer: 1973

Answer: 1973


Question: Why was this short termed organization created?

Answer: coordinate the response to the embargo

Answer: to coordinate the response to the embargo

Answer: to coordinate the response to the embargo

Answer: to coordinate the response to the embargo

Answer: to coordinate the response to the embargo


Question: According to the AAA, what is the percentage of the gas stations that ran out of gasoline?

Answer: last week of February 1974,

Answer: 20%

Answer: 20

Answer: 20%

Answer: 20%


Question: What is the speed limit set to reduce consumption?

Answer: 55 mph

Answer: 55 mph

Answer: 55 mph

Answer: 55 mph

Answer: 55 mph


Question: What is the name of the law which imposed the speed limit?

Answer: Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act

Answer: Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act

Answer: Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act

Answer: Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act

Answer: Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act


Question: Which president ended the Emergency Energy Conservation Act?

Answer: Bill Clinton

Answer: Bill Clinton

Answer: Bill Clinton

Answer: Bill Clinton

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: When was the National Highway Designated Act signed?

Answer: November 28, 1995

Answer: November 28, 1995

Answer: November 28, 1995

Answer: November 28, 1995

Answer: November 28, 1995


Question: When was the cabinet-level Energy Department created?

Answer: 1977

Answer: 1977

Answer: 1977

Answer: 1977

Answer: 1977


Question: What was the catalyst that created greater interest in renewable resources?

Answer: energy crisis

Answer: The energy crisis

Answer: energy crisis

Answer: energy crisis

Answer: The energy crisis


Question: There is criticism that the energy policies are expensive quick fixes that ignore which facts?

Answer: market and technology realities

Answer: market and technology realities

Answer: market and technology realities

Answer: market and technology realities

Answer: market and technology realities


Question: Who backed policies that have solutions that sound good but have poor prospects?

Answer: congresses and presidents

Answer: congresses and presidents

Answer: congresses and presidents

Answer: congresses and presidents

Answer: congresses and presidents


Question: Which country was thinking about going to war to forcibly take Middle Eastern oil fields?

Answer: U.S

Answer: U.S.

Answer: U.S.

Answer: U.S

Answer: the U.S.


Question: Which country was worried that the US would invade the Middle East?

Answer: British Prime Minister Edward Heath

Answer: British

Answer: British

Answer: British


Question: How long would the invasion of the Middle East have to last in order to develop renewable resources?

Answer: 10 years

Answer: 10 years

Answer: 10 years

Answer: 10 years

Answer: 10 years


Question: Who would the occupation alienate?

Answer: Arabs and much of the rest of the Third World

Answer: the Arabs and much of the rest of the Third World

Answer: Arabs

Answer: Arabs and much of the rest of the Third World

Answer: the Arabs and much of the rest of the Third World


Question: Which country is the most dependent on Arab oil?

Answer: Japan

Answer: Japan

Answer: Japan

Answer: Japan

Answer: Japan


Question: How much imported oil came from the Middle East?

Answer: 71%

Answer: 71%

Answer: 71

Answer: 71%

Answer: 71%


Question: To force Japan to be more involved in the crisis, what did Saudi and Kuwaiti government do?

Answer: 5% production cut

Answer: declared Japan a "nonfriendly" country

Answer: declared Japan a "nonfriendly" country

Answer: declared Japan a "nonfriendly" country

Answer: declared Japan a "nonfriendly" country


Question: When did Japan release a statement to tell Israelis to withdraw from the Palestine?

Answer: November 22

Answer: November 22

Answer: November 22

Answer: November 22,

Answer: November 22


Question: When was Japan accepted as an Arab-friendly state?

Answer: December 25

Answer: December 25

Answer: December 25

Answer: December 25

Answer: December 25


Question: Which country's invasion show the insecurity of the Middle East?

Answer: USSR's invasion

Answer: Afghanistan

Answer: USSR's

Answer: USSR

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: Which countries became dependent on US's security assurance to threats?

Answer: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Answer: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Answer: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Answer: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Answer: Saudi Arabia and Iran


Question: Which country's arms purchase from the US became 5 times more than Israel?

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: When did the Shah kingdom start to collapse?

Answer: January 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: January 1979


Question: When did the Wahhabi seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca?

Answer: November 1979

Answer: November 1979

Answer: November 1979

Answer: November 1979

Answer: November 1979


Question: Which sized cars were the least demanded cars in the crisis?

Answer: large cars

Answer: large

Answer: large

Answer: large


Question: Which country's cars became more highly sought after as they were more fuel efficient?

Answer: Japanese imports

Answer: Japan

Answer: Japanese

Answer: Japanese

Answer: Japanese


Question: What type of engines does the American car typically have?

Answer: V8 and six cylinder engines

Answer: V8 and six cylinder

Answer: V8 and six cylinder

Answer: V8 and six cylinder

Answer: V8 and six cylinder


Question: Which country's imports became the de facto mass market leaders?

Answer: Japan

Answer: Japan

Answer: Japanese

Answer: Japanese

Answer: Japanese


Question: When did Honda, Toyota and Nissan open US assembly plants?

Answer: A decade after the 1973

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: A decade after the 1973 oil crisis

Answer: 1981


Question: Name a larger car that Toyota came up with as buyers lamented the small sized compacts?

Answer: Toyota Corona Mark II

Answer: Corona Mark II

Answer: Toyota Corona Mark II

Answer: Corona Mark II


Question: Name an extra that was added to the production of the compacts.

Answer: power steering

Answer: air conditioning

Answer: air conditioning

Answer: power windows


Question: Name a luxury division of Toyota.

Answer: Lexus

Answer: Lexus

Answer: Lexus

Answer: Acura

Answer: Lexus


Question: Name a type of Toyota compact trucks?

Answer: Toyota Hilux

Answer: Hilux

Answer: Hilux

Answer: Toyota Hilux

Answer: Hilux


Question: What did Mitsubishi rename its Forte to?

Answer: Dodge D-50

Answer: Dodge D-50

Answer: Dodge D-50

Answer: Dodge D-50

Answer: Dodge D-50


Question: Mazda, Mitsubishi and Isuzu joined partnership with which American car company?

Answer: Ford, Chrysler, and GM

Answer: Ford, Chrysler, and GM

Answer: Ford, Chrysler, and GM, respectively

Answer: Ford

Answer: Ford, Chrysler, and GM


Question: When American car companies rolled out with their domestic replacement cars, which policy ended?

Answer: captive import policy

Answer: captive import

Answer: captive import

Answer: captive import

Answer: captive import


Question: Why did GM, Ford and Chrysler introduced fuel-efficient and small cars to the US market?

Answer: An increase in imported cars

Answer: An increase in imported cars into North America

Answer: An increase in imported cars into North America

Answer: An increase in imported cars

Answer: An increase in imported cars


Question: How many passengers can the Ford Fiesta accommodate?

Answer: at least four passengers

Answer: four

Answer: at least four passengers

Answer: at least four

Answer: four


Question: By which year did the American cars mpg start to improve?

Answer: 1985

Answer: 1985

Answer: 1985

Answer: 1985

Answer: 1985


Question: Name a luxury model that became popular in the mid-1970s.

Answer: Lincoln Continental,

Answer: Cadillac DeVille

Answer: Cadillac DeVille

Answer: Cadillac DeVille


Question: Which full-sized model cars were not popular?

Answer: Chevrolet Bel Air

Answer: lower price models such as the Chevrolet Bel Air, and Ford Galaxie 500

Answer: lower price models

Answer: Chevrolet Bel Air, and Ford Galaxie 500

Answer: Chevrolet Bel Air, and Ford Galaxie 500


Question: By which year did full sized American cars shrink to be smaller?

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979

Answer: 1979


Question: By which year did Chrysler ended its full sized luxury model?

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981


Question: Which car shows the DOT's revision of categories?

Answer: Mustang I

Answer: the 1974 Mustang I

Answer: Mustang I

Answer: 1974 Mustang I

Answer: 1974 Mustang I


Question: When was OPEC production of oil being surpassed?

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981


Question: Which year did the price of oil drop to $10 per barrel?

Answer: 1980s

Answer: during the 1980s

Answer: 1980s

Answer: 1980s

Answer: 1980s


Question: Why did Saudi Arabia try to increase production, and reduce profits for high cost producers?

Answer: recover market share

Answer: trying to recover market share

Answer: recover market share

Answer: to recover market share

Answer: recover market share


Question: In 1979, during the oil crisis, what was the highest price of oil?

Answer: nearly $40 per barrel

Answer: nearly $40 per barrel

Answer: $40 per barrel

Answer: $40 per barrel

Answer: $40 per barrel


Question: What project put the first Americans into space?

Answer: Project Mercury

Answer: spacecraft

Answer: Project Mercury

Answer: Apollo

Answer: Project Apollo


Question: What program was created to carry out these projects and missions?

Answer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Answer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA

Answer: Apollo

Answer: Project Mercury

Answer: Apollo program


Question: What year did the first manned Apollo flight occur?

Answer: 1968

Answer: 1969

Answer: 1962

Answer: 1968

Answer: 1969


Question: What President is credited with the original notion of putting Americans in space?

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer: John F. Kennedy's

Answer: John F. Kennedy's

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: How many people were on the project that followed Project Mercury?

Answer: two

Answer: rst

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two-man


Question: How long did Project Apollo run?

Answer: 1961 to 1972

Answer: 1961 to 1972

Answer: 1961 to 1972

Answer: 1961 to 1972

Answer: Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972


Question: What program helped develop space travel techniques that Project Apollo used?

Answer: Gemini program

Answer: Gemini

Answer: Gemini

Answer: Gemini

Answer: Gemini program


Question: Who did the U.S. collaborate with on an Earth orbit mission in 1975?

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Apollo Applications Program

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: What space station supported three manned missions in 1973-1974?

Answer: Skylab

Answer: Skylab

Answer: Skylab

Answer: Skylab

Answer: Skylab


Question: In what year did the Apollo 1 cabin fire occur?

Answer: 1967

Answer: 1967

Answer: 1967

Answer: 1967

Answer: 1967


Question: What type of launch was happening during the Apollo 1 incident?

Answer: prelaunch test

Answer: prelaunch

Answer: prelaunch test

Answer: prelaunch test


Question: What forced the cancellations of three future landings?

Answer: Budget cuts

Answer: oxygen tank explosion

Answer: Budget cuts

Answer: Budget cuts

Answer: Budget cuts


Question: How many of the remaining launches were successful?

Answer: Five

Answer: six

Answer: Five

Answer: Five

Answer: Five of the remaining six missions


Question: What happened to Apollo 13?

Answer: oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon

Answer: disabled the command spacecraft's propulsion and life support

Answer: oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon

Answer: oxygen tank explosion

Answer: oxygen tank explosion in transit


Question: What was the first spacecraft to orbit another celestial body?

Answer: Apollo 8

Answer: Apollo 8

Answer: Apollo 8

Answer: Apollo 8

Answer: Apollo 8


Question: What Apollo mission was the sixth moon landing?

Answer: Apollo 17

Answer: Apollo 17

Answer: Apollo 17

Answer: Apollo 17

Answer: Apollo 17


Question: How many kgs of moon rocks did the program bring back?

Answer: 382 kg

Answer: 382

Answer: 382

Answer: 382

Answer: 382 kg


Question: What other areas did the Apollo missions help spur advancements in?

Answer: avionics, telecommunications, and computers

Answer: NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center

Answer: avionics, telecommunications, and computers

Answer: avionics, telecommunications, and computers.

Answer: rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers


Question: How many people could the Mercury capsule hold?

Answer: one

Answer: three

Answer: one

Answer: one

Answer: one astronaut


Question: How many people could Apollo be projected to hold?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three astronauts


Question: Who named the Apollo missions?

Answer: Abe Silverstein

Answer: Abe Silverstein

Answer: Abe Silverstein

Answer: Abe Silverstein

Answer: NASA manager Abe Silverstein


Question: What was the eventual final goal of the Apollo projects?

Answer: manned lunar landings

Answer: manned lunar landings

Answer: lunar landings

Answer: ferrying crews to a space station, circumlunar flights, and eventual manned lunar landings


Question: When was the Apollo project conceived?

Answer: early 1960

Answer: 1960

Answer: 1960

Answer: 1960

Answer: early 1960


Question: In what year was the Apollo program announced?

Answer: 1960

Answer: 1960

Answer: 1960

Answer: 1960

Answer: July 1960


Question: Who led the in house design studies for NASA?

Answer: Maxime Faget

Answer: Hugh L. Dryden

Answer: Maxime Faget

Answer: Maxime Faget

Answer: Maxime Faget


Question: How many study contracts were awarded on October 25th?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three study contracts


Question: Who was the deputy administrator of NASA in 1960?

Answer: Hugh L. Dryden

Answer: Maxime Faget

Answer: Hugh L. Dryden

Answer: Hugh L. Dryden

Answer: Hugh L. Dryden


Question: Who was elected President in November 1960?

Answer: John F. Kennedy

Answer: John F. Kennedy

Answer: John F. Kennedy

Answer: , John F. Kennedy

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: Against what country was Kennedy promising superiority over?

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: What was President Kennedy put off by regarding the space program?

Answer: massive financial commitment

Answer: massive financial commitment

Answer: massive financial commitment

Answer: financial commitment

Answer: massive financial commitment


Question: Who was NASA's administrator?

Answer: James E. Webb

Answer: James E. Webb

Answer: James E. Webb

Answer: James E. Webb

Answer: James E. Webb


Question: What was the term Kennedy used to show that America was falling behind the Soviet Union due to inactivity in space programs?

Answer: missile gap

Answer: first but, first and, first if, but first period

Answer: missile gap

Answer: missile gap


Question: Who was the first person in space?

Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Answer: Yuri Gagarin


Question: From what country did the first person in space come from?

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: How many days after Gagarin's flight did the US House Committee on Science and Astronautics meet?

Answer: one day

Answer: one

Answer: one

Answer: one

Answer: one day


Question: What did President Kennedy do in response to the Soviet flight in regards of America's program?

Answer: refusing to make a commitment

Answer: refusing to make a commitment

Answer: refusing to make a commitment

Answer: refusing to make a commitment on America's response


Question: What month and day did Kennedy message his vice president about the status of the program?

Answer: April 20

Answer: April 20

Answer: April

Answer: April

Answer: April 20


Question: Who was Kennedy's vice president?

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: How long did it take Johnson to respond to Kennedy?

Answer: approximately one week

Answer: one week

Answer: one week

Answer: one week

Answer: one week


Question: What was the general consensus Johnson came to regarding America's progress on going to space and reaching a position of leadership?

Answer: neither making maximum effort nor achieving results necessary

Answer: are neither making maximum effort nor achieving results necessary

Answer: we are neither making maximum effort nor achieving results necessary if this country is to reach a position of leadership

Answer: we are neither making maximum effort nor achieving results necessary


Question: Who originally led the Space Task Group?

Answer: Robert R. Gilruth

Answer: Robert R. Gilruth's

Answer: Robert R. Gilruth's

Answer: Robert R. Gilruth

Answer: Robert R. Gilruth


Question: Where was the Space Task Group located?

Answer: NASA's Langley Research Center

Answer: Houston

Answer: NASA's Langley Research Center

Answer: Langley Research Center

Answer: Langley


Question: Where was the Manned Spacecraft Center located?

Answer: Houston, Texas

Answer: Houston

Answer: Houston, Texas

Answer: Houston, Texas

Answer: Houston


Question: What university donated the land for the Manned Spacecraft Center?

Answer: Rice University

Answer: Rice

Answer: Rice University

Answer: Rice University


Question: In what state were the original launching facilities for missions?

Answer: Florida

Answer: Florida

Answer: Florida

Answer: Florida


Question: Where would the Launch Operations Center be located, as more land was needed for a bigger rocket?

Answer: Merritt Island

Answer: Florida

Answer: Merritt Island

Answer: Merritt Island

Answer: Merritt Island


Question: Who conducted the construction of the new center?

Answer: Kurt H. Debus

Answer: construction of the center was conducted by Kurt H. Debus, a member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's

Answer: Kurt H. Debus

Answer: Kurt H. Debus

Answer: Kurt H. Debus,


Question: Kurt H. Debus was appointed what position for the Launch Operations Center?

Answer: Director

Answer: Director

Answer: Director

Answer: first Director

Answer: Director


Question: President Johnson issued an executive order to rename the Launch Operations Center after whom?

Answer: Kennedy

Answer: Kennedy

Answer: Kennedy

Answer: Kennedy

Answer: Kennedy


Question: How many launch pads were originally planned?

Answer: three

Answer: several

Answer: three

Answer: three pads

Answer: three


Question: What spacecraft was tested in two vacuum chambers to simulate atmospheric pressure?

Answer: Apollo spacecraft

Answer: Apollo

Answer: Apollo

Answer: Apollo


Question: How high in altitude in feet could the vacuum chambers simulate?

Answer: 250,000 feet

Answer: 250,000 feet

Answer: 250,000

Answer: 250,000 feet

Answer: 250,000 feet (


Question: How big was the Vertical Assembly Building?

Answer: 130 million cubic foot

Answer: 130 million cubic foot

Answer: 3.7 million cubic meter

Answer: 3.7 million cubic meter

Answer: 130 million cubic foot


Question: Who did Webb recruit for better project management?

Answer: Dr. George E. Mueller

Answer: Mueller

Answer: George E. Mueller

Answer: Dr. George E. Mueller

Answer: George E. Mueller


Question: When was Mueller announced and appointed as Deputy Associate Administrator?

Answer: July 23, 1963

Answer: 1963

Answer: July 23, 1963

Answer: July 23, 1963

Answer: July 23, 1963,


Question: Who was Mueller replaced as Associate Administrator?

Answer: D. Brainerd Holmes

Answer: Robert Seamans

Answer: Brainerd Holmes

Answer: D. Brainerd Holmes

Answer: D. Brainerd Holmes


Question: The administrators and directors Gilruth, von Braun and Debus reported to who?

Answer: Mueller

Answer: Brainerd Holmes

Answer: Mueller

Answer: Mueller

Answer: Mueller


Question: What did Mueller have experience with prior to joining the space program?

Answer: Air Force missile projects

Answer: Air Force missile projects

Answer: Air Force missile projects

Answer: missile projects

Answer: Air Force missile projects


Question: From what military branch did Mueller recruit managers from?

Answer: United States Air Force

Answer: Air Force

Answer: Air Force

Answer: Air Force

Answer: Air Force


Question: Who did Mueller recruit to be a manager for NASA projects on a loaned situation?

Answer: General Samuel C. Phillips

Answer: Bernard A. Schriever

Answer: Samuel C. Phillips

Answer: Samuel C. Phillips

Answer: General Samuel C. Phillips


Question: How long did Phillips manage the Apollo missions?

Answer: January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969

Answer: 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969,

Answer: from January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969

Answer: January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969

Answer: January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969,


Question: What was Phillips official title for NASA?

Answer: Apollo Program Director

Answer: Apollo Program Director

Answer: Apollo Program Director

Answer: Apollo Program Director

Answer: Apollo Program Director


Question: What did the engineers fear would be difficult in space due to it never being attempted in Earth orbit?

Answer: a rendezvous —let alone a docking

Answer: rendezvous

Answer: rendezvous

Answer: rendezvous

Answer: docking


Question: In what year was direct ascent the primary mission focus at NASA?

Answer: 1961

Answer: 1960

Answer: 1961

Answer: 1961

Answer: 1961


Question: Who was the Associate Administrator that Houbolt spoke with?

Answer: Robert Seamans

Answer: Robert Seamans

Answer: Robert Seamans

Answer: Robert Seamans

Answer: Robert Seamans;


Question: Who led the committee established by Seaman?

Answer: Nicholas E. Golovin

Answer: Nicholas E. Golovin

Answer: Nicholas E. Golovin

Answer: Nicholas E. Golovin

Answer: Nicholas E. Golovin

Answer: Nicholas E. Golovin


Question: When was this committee by Seaman established?

Answer: July 1961

Answer: 1961

Answer: 1961

Answer: July 1961

Answer: July 1961

Answer: 1961


Question: Which NASA faction came around first to support the LOR?

Answer: Manned Spacecraft Center

Answer: Manned Spacecraft Center

Answer: Manned Spacecraft Center

Answer: Manned Spacecraft Center


Question: Who was hired to be the deputy director of the Office of Manned Space Flight?

Answer: Joseph Shea

Answer: Joseph Shea,

Answer: Joseph Shea,

Answer: Joseph Shea

Answer: Joseph Shea

Answer: , Joseph Shea


Question: Which NASA location came around last to the idea of the LOR?

Answer: Marshall Space Flight Center

Answer: Marshall Space Flight Center

Answer: Marshall Space Flight Center

Answer: Marshall Space Flight Center

Answer: Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Answer: Marshall Space Flight Center


Question: Who was Kennedy's science adviser that opposed manned spacecraft flights?

Answer: Jerome Wiesner

Answer: Wiesner

Answer: Jerome Wiesner

Answer: Jerome Wiesner

Answer: Jerome Wiesner


Question: Who did Wiesner hire to monitor and second guess NASA's decisions?

Answer: Golovin

Answer: Golovin

Answer: Golovin

Answer: Golovin

Answer: Golovin


Question: Where did Golovin work prior to joining the "Space Vehicle Panel"?

Answer: NASA

Answer: NASA

Answer: NASA

Answer: NASA


Question: When was the announcement for the LOR made after being delayed?

Answer: July 11, 1962

Answer: 1962

Answer: July 11, 1962

Answer: July 11, 1962

Answer: July 11, 1962


Question: Who was keeping pressure and showing disagreements for the LOR, even in front of the President?

Answer: Wiesner

Answer: Wiesner

Answer: Wiesner

Answer: Wiesner

Answer: Wiesner


Question: What did Wiesner shout out in front of the press during a presentation by von Braun?

Answer: "No, that's no good"

Answer: "No, that's no good

Answer: No, that's no good

Answer: No, that's no good

Answer: "No, that's no good


Question: What does the acronym LEM stand for?

Answer: Lunar Excursion Module

Answer: Lunar Excursion Module

Answer: Lunar Excursion Module

Answer: Lunar Excursion Module

Answer: Lunar Excursion Module


Question: Who was announced as the LEM contractor in November 1962?

Answer: Grumman

Answer: Grumman

Answer: Grumman

Answer: Grumman

Answer: Grumman


Question: What was the advantage that the LOR method produced in the event of a spacecraft failure?

Answer: spacecraft to be used as a "lifeboat"

Answer: allowing the lander spacecraft to be used as a "lifeboat

Answer: allowing the lander spacecraft to be used as a "lifeboat"

Answer: lifeboat

Answer: allowing the lander spacecraft to be used as a "lifeboat"


Question: What Apollo mission was this LOR method used and needed?

Answer: Apollo 13

Answer: 13

Answer: Apollo 13

Answer: Apollo 13

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: What did the Lunar Module provide to help get the Apollo 13 home safely?

Answer: propulsion, electrical power and life support

Answer: propulsion

Answer: propulsion

Answer: propulsion, electrical power and life support

Answer: propulsion, electrical power and life support


Question: In what year was the Lunar Module (LM) dropped because it wasn't seen as useful?

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964


Question: What was the shape that Faget designed for the Apollo command module?

Answer: cone-shaped

Answer: cone

Answer: cone

Answer: cone-shaped

Answer: cone


Question: What does the acronym CSM stand for?

Answer: Command/Service Module

Answer: Command/Service Module (

Answer: Command/Service Module

Answer: Command/Service Module

Answer: Command/Service Module


Question: How many men would the LM take to the lunar surface and return to the CSM?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two men

Answer: two


Question: How many people was the CM designed to carry in the end?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three astronauts

Answer: three


Question: Where was the CM intended to land upon re entering the Earth's atmosphere?

Answer: ocean

Answer: splashdown

Answer: ocean

Answer: ocean

Answer: ocean


Question: The outside of the CM was covered in what kind of material?

Answer: ablative heat shield

Answer: ablative heat shield

Answer: ablative heat shield

Answer: ablative heat shield

Answer: ablative heat shield


Question: What was incorporated to help slow the CM's decent back to Earth?

Answer: Parachutes

Answer: Parachutes

Answer: Parachutes

Answer: Parachutes

Answer: Parachutes


Question: How much did the CM weigh in kgs?

Answer: 5,560 kg

Answer: 5,560

Answer: 5,560

Answer: 5,560 kg

Answer: 5,560


Question: What helped support the Command Module with a propulsion engine and propellants?

Answer: Service Module (SM)

Answer: cylindrical Service Module

Answer: Service Module

Answer: cylindrical Service Module

Answer: Service Module


Question: What type of antenna was used for communication on the lunar flights?

Answer: high-gain S-band antenna

Answer: high-gain S-band

Answer: high-gain S-band

Answer: high-gain S-band antenna

Answer: S-band


Question: What happened to the SM upon reentry to the atmosphere?

Answer: discarded

Answer: discarded

Answer: discarded

Answer: discarded

Answer: discarded


Question: How much did the initial version of the SM weigh in pounds?

Answer: 51,300 pounds

Answer: 51,300

Answer: 51,300 pounds

Answer: 23,300 kg

Answer: 51,300


Question: What was carried on extended lunar missions?

Answer: orbital scientific instrument package

Answer: orbital scientific instrument

Answer: orbital scientific instrument package

Answer: scientific instrument package


Question: Who was rewarded with building the CSM?

Answer: North American Aviation

Answer: North American Aviation

Answer: North American Aviation

Answer: North American Aviation

Answer: North American Aviation


Question: How much thrust was estimated for the translunar flight?

Answer: twice the thrust

Answer: twice the thrust required

Answer: twice the thrust

Answer: twice the thrust


Question: In what year was a program study done on the modules labeled as Block I and Block II?

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964


Question: What was the name of the launch vehicle for NASA, which North American Aviation designed the second stage of?

Answer: Saturn V

Answer: Saturn V

Answer: Saturn V

Answer: Saturn V


Question: How many astronauts was the LM intended to take from orbit of the moon to the surface of the moon?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two astronauts

Answer: two


Question: Was the LM intended to return to Earth at all?

Answer: Not

Answer: Command Module

Answer: Not

Answer: take them back to orbit to rendezvous with the Command Module

Answer: Not designed to fly through the Earth's atmosphere or return to Earth


Question: The initial LM weighed how much in kgs?

Answer: 15,100 kg

Answer: (15,100

Answer: 15,100

Answer: 15,100 kg

Answer: 15,100


Question: For about how long would the extended LM allow a surface stay on the moon?

Answer: 3 days

Answer: 3 days.

Answer: over 3 days

Answer: over 3 days

Answer: 3 days


Question: Who had worked on the Saturn series even before the Apollo program began officially?

Answer: Wernher von Braun

Answer: Wernher von Braun

Answer: Wernher von Braun

Answer: Wernher von Braun

Answer: Wernher von Braun


Question: From where was von Braun transferred to go to NASA?

Answer: Army

Answer: Army

Answer: Army

Answer: Army

Answer: Army


Question: When was the decision made to replace the Nova rockets with the Saturn V?

Answer: June 11, 1962

Answer: 1962

Answer: June 11, 1962

Answer: June 11, 1962

Answer: June 11, 1962


Question: What did the initial first stages of the Saturn I tests carry?

Answer: dummy upper stages filled with water

Answer: dummy upper stages

Answer: dummy upper stages

Answer: dummy upper stages filled with water

Answer: dummy upper stages filled with water.


Question: When did the launches of boilerplate CSMs occur in orbit?

Answer: 1964 and 1965

Answer: 1964

Answer: 1964 and 1965

Answer: 1964 and 1965

Answer: 1964 and 1965


Question: What did the last few of the boilerplate CSM launches carry with them?

Answer: Pegasus satellites

Answer: Pegasus satellites,

Answer: Pegasus satellites

Answer: Pegasus satellites

Answer: Pegasus satellites


Question: What did Pegasus satellites measure to propose the safety of the environment in space and on the moon?

Answer: frequency and severity of micrometeorite impacts

Answer: translunar environment by measuring the frequency and severity of micrometeorite impacts.

Answer: micrometeorite impacts

Answer: safety of the translunar environment

Answer: micrometeorite impacts.


Question: What was the name of the upgraded Saturn I called?

Answer: Saturn IB

Answer: S-IB

Answer: Saturn IB

Answer: Saturn IB

Answer: Saturn IB


Question: How much did the second stage increase thrust by with the integration of the S-IVB-200?

Answer: 200,000 lbf

Answer: 200,000 lbf

Answer: 200,000 lbf

Answer: 200,000 lbf (890 kN) of thrust

Answer: 200,000 lbf


Question: The S-IVB-200 was used in what stage of the Saturn V?

Answer: third stage

Answer: third

Answer: third stage

Answer: second stage


Question: How much weight could the Saturn IB send into space with this amount of thrust?

Answer: 40,000 pounds

Answer: 40,000 pounds

Answer: 40,000 pounds

Answer: 40,000 pounds (18,100 kg)

Answer: over 40,000 pounds


Question: What was intended to take a CSM and LM, fully fueled, to the moon?

Answer: three-stage Saturn V

Answer: Saturn V

Answer: Saturn V

Answer: Saturn V

Answer: Saturn V


Question: What was the diameter of the Saturn V in feet?

Answer: 33 feet

Answer: 33

Answer: 33

Answer: 33


Question: How many stages did the Saturn V end up having?

Answer: three

Answer: third

Answer: three

Answer: three-stage

Answer: three


Question: What did the second stage in the Saturn V end up doing?

Answer: burned liquid hydrogen

Answer: burned liquid hydrogen

Answer: burned liquid hydrogen

Answer: burned liquid hydrogen

Answer: burned liquid hydrogen


Question: From what project groups were the Apollo astronauts selected?

Answer: Mercury and Gemini

Answer: Mercury

Answer: Mercury and Gemini

Answer: Project Mercury and Gemini

Answer: Mercury and Gemini


Question: How many Apollo missions were manned by the previous Mercury and Gemini veterans?

Answer: All missions

Answer: 17

Answer: All missions

Answer: All


Question: Who was the first NASA scientist in space?

Answer: Dr. Harrison Schmitt

Answer: Harrison Schmitt

Answer: Harrison Schmitt

Answer: Harrison Schmitt

Answer: Harrison Schmitt


Question: Which mission did Schmitt finally land on the moon?

Answer: Apollo 17

Answer: 17

Answer: Apollo 17

Answer: Apollo 17

Answer: Apollo 17


Question: Apollo 17 was significant for what reason?

Answer: last mission

Answer: last mission

Answer: first NASA scientist astronaut to fly in space

Answer: last mission,


Question: How many astronauts visited space on missions and were rewarded for their efforts?

Answer: 32

Answer: 32

Answer: 32

Answer: 32

Answer: 32


Question: What type of medal did NASA give the astronauts who visited space and the moon?

Answer: Distinguished Service Medal

Answer: Distinguished Service Medal

Answer: Distinguished Service Medal

Answer: Distinguished Service Medal

Answer: Distinguished Service Medal,


Question: In what year were the Distinguished Service Medals awarded to Grissom, White, and Chaffee?

Answer: 1969

Answer: 1969

Answer: 1969

Answer: 1969

Answer: 1969


Question: What happened during the Apollo 7 test mission to elicit them a lesser version of the DSM?

Answer: discipline problems

Answer: discipline problems

Answer: discipline problems

Answer: discipline problems


Question: From what mission and onward were the DSMs awarded?

Answer: Apollo 8

Answer: Apollo 8

Answer: Apollo 7

Answer: Apollo 8

Answer: Apollo 8