Non-renewable resources

What is the term for natural gas that has been turned into a liquid?

• Acid mine drainage

• Liquefied natural gas

• Methane

• Secondary recovery

What process is used to get the most amount of oil or gas from a well once the easiest material has been pumped out?

• liquefied natural gas

• secondary recovery

• underground mining

• acid mine drainage

Which of the following problems is NOT associated with burning coal?

• radioactive waste

• air pollution

• climate change

• acid depostion

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

What are resources that are not replaced by natural resources?

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• geothermal

• resources

T/F Coal is the world's most abundant fuel and is mostly used to make electricity

• True

• False

Nuclear energy comes from .....

• heat from fire

• decay of the nucleus of atoms

• electrons released from atoms

• water

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What is mining in which the material is removed without disturbing the top layer of soil called?

• underground mining

• surface mining

• acid mine drainage

• nonrenewable resources

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

Mining in which the top layuer of soil is removed to procure the underlying deposit.

• underground mining

• resources

• surface mining

• acid mine drainage

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

What type of pollution occurs when bacteria is converts sulfur in coal to sulfuric acid, when then drains into water?

• Underground mining

• surface mining

• acid mine drainage

• secondary recovery

What is the time it takes for half of the radioactive matyerial to decompose?

• radiation

• decomminssioning

• radioactive half-life

• nuclear fusion

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8