17.2 - Fossil Fuels Flashcards
Renewable Energies:
moving water
solar
bio-mass (wood plants)
wind
geothermal
Nonrenewable Energies:
Fossil Fuels-oil, coal, natural gas
Nuclear-fission/fussion
True/Fasle: After 4-5 billion years NOTHING will be renewable
True
Primary Energies:
Things found in nature
-wood
-coal
Secondary Energies:
Energy transformed from primary
Agriculture is
the farming of crops and animals
Coal forms in:
terestrial swampy areas with trees. plants, ferns, peat
Oil Forms in:
marine enviroments with Phyto Plankton
4 stages of energy dense coal
- where coal forms
- lignite
- Bitumnois
- Antracite
1# use of coal:
production of ecltricity
1# use of oil:
Transportation
True/Fasle: Sub Surface mining for coal is not dengerouse
Fasle (like October Sky)
MTR stands for:
Mountaintop removal
Oil is distributed by:
Pipes
Coal is ditrubuted by:
Trains & Trucks