Obtaining Energy Resources
Authored by Julia Lequin
Science
9th Grade
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1.
MATCH QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Match the energy extraction method and the energy resources:
charcoal production
harvesting wood for
uranium
mining for
gas
drilling for
oil
drilling for
coal
mining for
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS3-1
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
How does coal mining affect the lithosphere? Check all the possible answers.
It changes the needed landscape of the outer crust.
It disrupts the landscape of the outer crust which causes erosion.
It leaves behind toxic substances used during the process.
It is needed to extract the oil and gas energy resources from the underground.
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which are negative impacts of oil drilling?
It destroys important animal habitats.
Great risks of oil spills in the ocean.
It decreases carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere
It causes heat islands.
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS3-1
NGSS.HS-LS2-6
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The human NEED for harvesting wood is for paper, lumber, plywood, and furniture.
How does the harvesting of wood affect ecosystems?
It increases oxygen in the atmosphere.
It increases carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
It decreases oxygen in the atmosphere.
It decreases carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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NGSS.HS-LS2-6
NGSS.HS-LS2-7
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What is common between the extraction of coal and uranium/plutonium?
Both involve hydrofracking, the breaking of underground rocks.
Mining the lithosphere is the common method of extracting coal, uranium and plutonium.
Drilling the lithosphere is the common method of extracting coal and uranium/plutonium.
Both involve underground mining.
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Natural gas is obtained by hydrofracking.
Hydrofracking is done by breaking and acidifying the big rocks at the bottom of a well to extract the gas. What is the negative impact of the process on the ecosystems?
Hydrofracking can cause hazardous chemicals to escape.
Hydrofracking increases oxygen gas in the atmosphere.
Natural gas drilling can cause gas leakage that may contaminate the aquifer.
Natural gas drilling causes heat and pressure to rocks changing them to metamorphic rocks.
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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1
NGSS.HS-LS2-6
NGSS.HS-LS2-7
NGSS.HS-ESS3-4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Why fossil fuels are the main energy resources in developed countries such as United States?
Fossil fuels are always available because they are Earth's renewable natural resources.
Using fossil fuels are not harmful to the environment because it does not increase the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Fossil fuels are reliable and efficient because it can be used anywhere regardless of time and weather condition.
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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2
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