Know Your eResources Quiz: Day 4

As part of HCI’s 2011 Library Week and World Book Day celebrations, we are once again conducting our annual Know Your eResources Quiz! Find the answers to each day’s questions by researching the school’s Online Resources, and then email your answers to hcikclibrary@gmail.com.

Day 4 (The Sciences)

1. How do good bacteria affect bad greenhouse gases?

2. What did the president of the World Wildlife Federation say about the United States on climate change? Name two specific things that the United States done about climate change.

3. What is wrong with the popular explanation regarding “How aeroplane wings work”? How do they really work?

4. With regards to the radiation disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, (a) what is a “meltdown”? (b) How is this different from the radiation disaster at Chernobyl?

(Hint: look in Scientific American, Online Ecologist, Physics Education and Education in Chemistry.)