Quiz on Coal

Before coal has formed over millions of years, it is a wet, sampling of decaying plant material called...

• Peanut Butter

• Peat

• Mud

• Sedimentary Rock

What two things are required to turn decaying plant material into coal?

• Heat and Moisture

• Pressure and Moisture

• Heat and Pressure

• Heat and Gravity

Which coal is the type we use mostly in the US?

• Lignite

• Sub-bituminous

• Bituminous

• Anthracite

What is reclamation?

• Taking the land back from the British

• Putting the land back to what it was before mining

• Planting trees on the remains of dead plants and animals

• Putting coal back into the soil after mining

Today, most of the coal is used to:

• power steamships and steam trains
• heat homes and businesses
• produce electricity
• make iron and steel

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Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel.

• coal

• carbon dioxide

• petroleum oil

• natural gas

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1. How long does coal take to form?

• 2 Days

• Millions of Years

• Billions of Years

• 7 Weeks

3.Coal Renewable or Non-renewable

• Renewable

• Cool

• Non-renewable

• Uncool

4. Which greenhouse gas is associated most with burning coal?

• Carbon Monoxide

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Methane

Which of the following is NOT an environmental consequence of using coal

• Acid Rain

• Acid Mine drainage

• High mercury levels

• higher risk of earthquakes

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