Fuels Test

Question 1

Negative of wind power

Answer 1

Wind is inconsistent 
Has to be coupled with other energy sources
Location matters
Noise/ visual pollution
Bird death

Question 2

Negatives of solar power

Answer 2

Hard to capture consistently

Costly/efficiency ratio

Question 3

Problems with nuclear power

Answer 3

Reactor safety 
Disposal of nuclear wastes
Transportation of radioactive materials 
Terrorism/weaponization
Worker safety
Thermal pollution
Cost

Question 4

What is a resource

Answer 4

A naturally occurring substance of use to humans

Question 5

Reserve

Answer 5

Known deposit

Question 6

How are resources and reserves related

Answer 6

A reserve is a resource. Resources are broader than reserves

Question 7

Non renewable resource and examples

Answer 7

A source of energy whose use is greater than it’s formation

Coal, oil, gas

Question 8

Renewable resource and examples

Answer 8

A source of energy that replenishes itself or is continuously present
Water, oxygen, fruit/veggie

Question 9

Fossil fuels form

Answer 9

Formed by natural processes

Question 10

Coal formation

Answer 10

By energy stored in plants and form layers at the bottoms of swamps

Question 11

Wet, least wanted kind of coal

Answer 11

Lignite

Question 12

Soft, most common type of coal

Answer 12

Bituminous

Question 13

Hard grade, most wanted type of coal

Answer 13

Anthracite

Question 14

Most abundant fossil fuel

Answer 14

Coal

Question 15

% of energy use from coal

Answer 15

24%

Question 16

Coal used for

Answer 16

Industrial and electrical uses

Question 17

1 barrel of oil = ? Gallons

Answer 17

49

Question 18

From one barrel how many gallons are gas and where do the rest go?

Answer 18

19

Jet fuel and other things

Question 19

Methods to import and transport oil

Answer 19

Tankers, pipelines, and tanks

Question 20

Incorrect to say that majority of oil pollution comes from spills

Answer 20

Spills account for only 1/3 of transportation pollution

It also comes from automobile emission and plants and industries

Question 21

Spill pollution

Answer 21

Damages beaches, mammals, birds, and aquatic life’s enviornment and destroys their habitats

Question 22

Non spill pollution

Answer 22

Hurts the air with its emission

Question 23

Strip mining

Answer 23

Removing the materials located on top of a vein of coal to access coal beneath

Question 24

Underground mining

Answer 24

Vertical shifts and drifts mines are used to access deep coal veins

Question 25

How does nuclear power generate energy

Answer 25

Nuclear fisson

Nucleus splits and produces energy

Question 26

How is natural gas transported

Answer 26

Liquified natural gas

Question 27

Fracking

Answer 27

Using water to release natural gas trapped with in a rock

Big pipe like thing drilled in the found to get oil

Question 28

Dangers of fracking

Answer 28

Can release chemicals into drinking water

Requires massive amounts of water and energy

Question 29

Problems of natural gas

Answer 29

Wells don’t produce normal wastes
Smells, combustion
Gas loss/pollution
Wells exhaust quickly

Question 30

Problems with fossil fuels

Answer 30

Transportation, extraction, refinement

Opportunities for leakage, loss, and spillage

Question 31

Cons of hydroelectric power

Answer 31

Environmental disruption
Massive flooding
Poole displacement