Fossil Fuels & Nuclear Energy

Which conventional fossil fuel resource is in largest supply worldwide?

• Natural gas
• Uranium
• Oil
• Coal

The countries with the largest supplies of coal are

• China, United States, India

• Russia, Indonesia, China

• Canada, South Africa, Russia
• China, United States, Russia,

Which type of electricity generating power plant regularly releases toxic metals such as mercury and lead into the atmosphere?

• Nuclear power plant
• Coal fired power plant
• Natural gas fired power plant
• Wind energy power plant

Petroleum products are primarily used for ______________

• production of kerosene as a fuel source.
• extraction of tar and asphalt.
• gasoline for transportation.
• production of plastics.

Which is the cleanest burning fossil fuel?

• Coal
• Natural gas
• Oil
• Uranium

One of the risks when fracking for natural gas is _________________________

• contamination of aquifers that provide drinking water

• spills resulting in kerogen exposure in the ecosystem
• mine collapse
• flooding of the surrounding area

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A resource that is used faster than we can replace it is known as a ______________

• renewable resource
• non renewable resource
• natural resource
• income resource

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Approximately 20% of US electricity comes from ___.

This method of extracting oil and natural gas involves pumping chemically treated water under high pressure into deep layers of rock to crack them.

• directional drilling

• mountain top removal

• solution mining

• hydraulic fracturing

Nuclear power plants rely on which of the following reactions to generate energy?

• Fusion
• Half-life
• Fission
• Fusion or fission