Fracking Quiz

Fracking deals with 

• Rain Water and Oil Extraction
• Oil Extraction and Drilling
• Rock and Rain Water
• Natural Gas and Oil Extraction

Fracking is another term used for?

• Water Fracturing
• Oil Fracturing
• Hydraulic Fracturing
• Hydro Fracturing

Which of the following is TRUE of hydraulic fracturing?

• It uses very little water
• It does not create environmental concerns
• it uses water, sand, and chemicals to break rock formation
• all of these answers are correct

What are nonrenewable resources?

• resources that can be replenished within a human's lifetime

• resources that cannot be replenished within a human's lifetime

Chemical companies always release/disclose the precise recipe of chemicals in their fracking fluid.

• True
• False

Which of the following is TRUE of hydraulic fracturing?

• It uses very little water
• It does not create environmental concerns
• it uses water, sand, and chemicals to break rock formation
• all of these answers are correct

Shale gas is which type of fossil fuel?

• natural gas
• oil
• coal
• all of the answers are correct

The first step of fracking is

• horizontal drilling
• vertical drilling
• use of water to crack rock formations
• pumping oil to the surface

What is used to crack the rock which contains the oil?

• fracking fluids under high pressure
• explosives
• horizontal drilling through the rock layers
• vertical drilling

 About how deep are fracking wells drilled?

• almost 2 miles deep 
• about 20 miles deep
• .02 miles deep
• 200 miles deep