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Question 0

What percent of oil reserves in u.s

Answer 0

2.9%

Question 1

What is petroleum(crude oil)?

Answer 1

A gooey liquid consisting primarily of HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS

Question 2

What amount of electricity does u.s get from nuclear fuel ?

Answer 2

20%

Question 3

What amount of electricity does u.s get from burning coal?

Answer 3

50%!!!

Question 4

The amount of oil reserves in Canada

Answer 4

15

Question 5

Amount OPEC oil controls

Answer 5

78% organization of petroleum exporting countries , long term control of oil

Question 6

What is net energy

Answer 6

The amount of high quality usable energy available from a resource after subtracting the energy needed to make it available .

Question 7

What is bitumen and where is it found

Answer 7

A high sulfur heavy oil found in tar sand in Canada and Russia

Question 8

Natural gas consists of 50-90% of ?

Answer 8

Methane

Question 9

Burning coal realese a trace amounts of toxic ?

Answer 9

Mercury

Question 10

High heat content and low sulfur what’s the most desirable coal

Answer 10

Anthracite

Question 11

Runoff from mines carry?

Answer 11

Sulfuric acid

Question 12

What do divergent plate boundaries do?

Answer 12

The plates move apart create ocean ridges

Question 13

What do convergent plates do

Answer 13

Grind into each other forming trenches

Question 14

Transform plates ?

Answer 14

Slide past one another

Question 15

When did oil reach a peak what did Hubbert think

Answer 15

1974, he thought 1970

Question 16

Disadvantages and advantages of usin oil

Answer 16

Adv: ample supply , low cost, high net energy , easily transported .
Dis: need a substitute pollution waste co2 released

Question 17

Bitumen has high?

Answer 17

Sulfur

Question 18

Primary use of coal

Answer 18

To produce electricity and steel u.s and Saudi Arabia

Question 19

Synfuel?

Answer 19

Coal to liquid like gasoline

Question 20

What is a dirty bomb ?

Answer 20

Consists of explosive dynamite and radioactive material

Question 21

Who has largest supply of coal

Answer 21

We do . It releases mercury , gets descended in winds acid rain speeds it up. It’s in fish! Biggest plant is Indiana

Question 22

Fuels to make electricity

Answer 22

50 percent coal
20percent nuclear
17 natural
10 renewable
3 oil

Question 23

Earth layers?

Answer 23

Inner core outer core mantle(mesosphere rigid, lithosphere upper and by crust) asthenosphere fluid rock) then crust .

Question 24

Types of weathering

Answer 24

Physical- freeze thaw
Chemical- acid rain
Biological - lichens

Question 25

What does minin effect ?

Answer 25

Destroys land pollutes water acid mind damage releases toxins

Question 26

Cyanide heat extraction ?

Answer 26

Cheap way to release gold it’s very toxic

Question 27

Depletion time?

Answer 27

Time it takes 80 percent of mineral reserve

Question 28

Finding nonrenewable materials types ?

Answer 28

Open pit-dig hole
Dredging- draglines
Area strip- shovel digs a cut layers
Contour- hilly bunches of cuts
Surface mining - digging real far among a shaft

Question 29

What is acid mine damage ?

Answer 29

Occurs when water intersects with mining spoils left from coal mining.
It produces iron precipitate sulfate and sulfuric acid. Fe - oxidizes. Low ph . Metals in water toxic it can block sunlight and settle hurts animals

Question 30

Energy data ?

Answer 30

82%commercial
76%fossil
6% nuclear
18%renewable

Question 31

Ring of fire what plate ? Hot spot?

Answer 31

Pacific plate left of America . Hawaii is a hot spot it’s above a plume magma breaks thru cracks

Question 32

What is cogeneration ?

Answer 32

A system with two useful forms of energy are produced from the same fuel source