Obtaining Energy Resources

Match the energy extraction method and the energy resources:

• oil

• mining for

• gas

• harvesting wood for

• coal

• mining for

• uranium

• drilling for

• charcoal production

• drilling for

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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