Vocabulary
When a building falls suddenly because it is too weak, it ___.
collapses
He ___ (walk) home when the earthquake started.
was walking
A song that literally broke the internet and turned everyone into a cowboy in 2019.
Old Town Road by Lil Nas X
This Japanese city was the first to experience an atomic bomb in 1945.
Hiroshima
This word means the pieces left after something has been destroyed.
debris
By the time the rescue team arrived, the building ___ (collapse).
had collapsed
This song by Billie Eilish won multiple Grammys and begins with the lyrics “White shirt now red, my bloody nose…”
Bad Guy
This Kazakh leader signed the decree to close the Semipalatinsk Test Site in 1991.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
After the explosion, many people suffered from ____, a dangerous contact with nuclear energy.
radiation exposure
They ___ (search) for survivors all night before they found the child.
had been searching
In Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, all three Spider-Men appeared on screen together — name each actor who played Spider-Man.
Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, or Tobey Maguire
About how many nuclear tests were carried out at the Semipalatinsk Test Site?
450
He was in such pain that his arm had a ___ pain. (pulsating, growing)
throbbing
He ___ (try) to call his family all morning, but the phone lines ___ (be) down since the explosion.
had been trying, had been
In the Netflix series Stranger Things, what is the name of the parallel dimension that exists beneath Hawkins?
Upside Down
Today, what is one of the main uses of the former Semipalatinsk Test Site area?
Scientific research on radiation and ecology
Her heart was ____________fast and hard as she saw buildings falling apart
pounding
When the factory ___ (explode), nobody ___ (realize) what had caused it, because the alarms ___ (not / go off).
exploded, realized, had not gone off
A scientist tries to save his family as massive tsunamis destroy the planet after a global catastrophe.
2012
What caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?
a dangerous combination of human error and a flawed reactor design during a poorly executed safety test.