EE Final Exam Review- Natural Resources &Energy

Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

• require expensive equipment
• take millions of years to replace
• can be found all over 
• provide all the energy we use

What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• Coal, Oil, and Gasoline
• Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
• Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
• Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources

What is coal made of?

• decomposed animal and plant remains
• water
• electricity
• all of the above

What conditions are needed to form coal?

• Heat and pressure and time

• Sea or Ocean

• Oxygen

• Cool and moist

Thick black liquid hydrocarbon that is extracted through drilling.

Causes great environmental damage when spilled.

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural Gas

• Uranium

Crude oil is also called what?

• biomass
• fossils
• coal
• petroleum

This process uses a high pressure water mixture to break up rock far below the earth's surface to allow more oil and natural gas to be collected.

• Pumping

• Brixing

• Fracking

• Dynamiting

Nuclear power is created by splitting ____ through the process of fission.

• steel

• coal

• uranium

• hydrogen

Nuclear energy uses _____ to turn turbines to power a generator.

• wind
• water
• steam
• solar

What is one of the advantages of using coal

as an energy source in the United States?

• Forming acid rain

• Producing carbon dioxide gas

• It is renewable

• It is cheap