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Solar Power Quiz Number: 7 Course Name: Industrial Technology/Engineering Quiz N0. = 7 Teacher: E. Schmidt Teacher's Home Page: http://www.oocities.org/Baja/2140/ENG.htm Teacher's Email: schmidte@putnam.k12.il.us

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1.	The sun God is:
	a)	Surya
	b)	Apocylipse
	c)	Lartis
	d)	Aurora
	e)	Milky Way
2.	Solar energy can be collected to:
	a)	heat water
	b)	cooking
	c)	raising steam
	d)	generating electricity
	e)	all of these
3.	Energy that does not deplete on continuous usage is known as:
	a)	eternity power
	b)	renewable
	c)	recycleable
	d)	forever energy
	e)	no loss energy
4.	The sun has a predicted life span of ______ billion years:
	a)	5
	b)	11
	c)	22
	d)	33
	e)	44
5.	The heat energy that comes from inside the earth is known as:
	a)	core energy
	b)	mantle energy
	c)	crust energy
	d)	geothermal energy
	e)	black energy
6.	The energy due to the daily tides in the sea is known as ____:
	a)	rising
	b)	tidal
	c)	water
	d)	high
	e)	low
7.	Which of these is a fossil fuel:
	a)	petroleum
	b)	coal
	c)	natural gas
	d)	all of these
	e)	none of these
8.	The energy we receive from the sun is ____ times more than what we get from fossil fuels:
	a)	5
	b)	20
	c)	50
	d)	100
	e)	10
9.	Gasoline engines and steam turbine power plants that burn coal or natural gas emit substantial amounts of:
	a)	oxygen
	b)	nitrogen
	c)	sulphur dioxide
	d)	carbon
	e)	nitro-dioxin
10.	The term that refers to the height of the sun in the sky (angle above the horizon) is :
	a)	sun attitude
	b)	ecllipse altitude
	c)	sun angle
	d)	lunar differential
	e)	solar attitude
11.	The measure of the sun's position in relation to true south is called:
	a)	solar influence
	b)	lunar attitude
	c)	solar azimuth
	d)	solar sun angle
	e)	lunar azimuth
12.	The only time the sun rises exactly in the east and sets in the west is on September and March ______:
	a)	21 st
	b)	15 th
	c)	4 th
	d)	28 th
	e)	7 th
13.	Sunshine arrives on the earth as a type of energy called:
	a)	reflective energy
	b)	radiation
	c)	nuclear
	d)	relative energy
	e)	equator energy
14.	We can convert sunlight directly into power by using devices caled:
	a)	solar diodes
	b)	solar cells
	c)	aaa batteries
	d)	reactors
	e)	turbines
15.	Radiation is composed of millions of high energy particles called:
	a)	neutrons
	b)	electrons
	c)	suntrons
	d)	protons
	e)	photons
16.	Countries in high nothern and southern latitudes receive ______ radiation than those located near the equator:
	a)	more
	b)	less
	c)	the same
	d)	50% more
	e)	90% more
17.	Direct Radiation + Diffused Radiation =______
	a)	equator radiation
	b)	reflected radiation
	c)	differential radiation
	d)	global radiation
	e)	tidal radiation
18.	Materials which absorb the visible sunlight beloing to a class of substances known as _______ materials:
	a)	insulator
	b)	semiconductor
	c)	conductor
	d)	magnetic
	e)	non-magnetic
19.	Solar cells convert sunlight in to electricity through a process called_________:
	a)	voltage
	b)	amperage
	c)	resistance
	d)	photovoltaics
	e)	transformation
20.	Antione-Cesar Becquerel discovered the _____ effect:
	a)	AB
	b)	PV
	c)	ED
	d)	TO
	e)	US
21.	Metallic grid, metallic contact and n-type front are parts to a :
	a)	battery
	b)	generator
	c)	turbine
	d)	solar cell
	e)	lunar cell
22.	Mon-crystalline, multi-crystalline and amorphous silicon are types of:
	a)	batteries
	b)	cables
	c)	stones
	d)	semiconductors
	e)	solar cells
23.	Solar cells can be connected in:
	a)	series
	b)	parallel
	c)	direct connect
	d)	both a and b
	e)	both b and c
24.	Solar cells put out what type of voltage:
	a)	alternating
	b)	fluctuating
	c)	direct current
	d)	resistive voltage
	e)	semiconducting
25.	Box type, concentrating, heat accumulating and solar steam are types of:
	a)	solar cookers
	b)	solar converters
	c)	turbines
	d)	generators
	e)	switches

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