Find a map of your local area focused on the college campus, and draw a 1,000-square-mile (10-mile x 10-mile) zone around the facility to understand the size of Chernobyl's "exclusion zone." What local areas would be included?

What will be an ideal response?


, and it might be easier to draw it as a circle with a 10-mile radius from the
center of campus. Follow up could include how many houses and/or how many people would
need a new home?

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A) electrical B) gravitational C) magnetic D) resultant E) tectonic

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Which of the following is responsible for most consumptive water use?

a. agriculture b. municipal water use c. industry d. transportation e. mining

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Which of the following is most likely to be powered by photovoltaics?

A) A lighthouse B) A calculator C) A lawn mower D) An automobile

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