Grade 7 quiz 2

Coal, oil and natural gas are

• renewable resources

• Non-renewable resources

These resources can not be replaced quickly

• Renewable resources

• Non-renewable resources

´About 88% of the energy consumed by humans comes from burning of fossil fuels.

• True

• False

Over pumping leads to groundwater depletion

• True

• False

´minerals will be available for future generation if rates of consumption are not decreased.

• True

• False

What is one way to help stop natural resources from running out?

• Ignore local innovations

• Encourage renewable energy adoption

• Increase overconsumption

• Avoid policy and education

What is mining?

• is the process by which commercially unevaluable resources are removed from Earth

• is the process by which commercially valuable resources are removed from Earth

• is the process by which is coal removed from Earth

• is the process by which by new resources is produced on earth.

Dwindling Deposits is:

• It is consuming a resource slower than it can be replenished

• It is consuming a resource harder than it can be replenished

• It is consuming a resource faster than it can be replenished

• It is consuming a resource better than it can be replenished

Minerals would have been disappeared why is it still on this world?

• Because geologists invented a new technology that finds where the minerals are.

• Because geologists invented a new pickaxe that break the ground faster.

• Because humans invented a new tracking device that search for minerals

• Because Geologists invented a new technology that finds where metals are.

When more water is pumped out of an aquifer at a rate faster than the rate of its discharge, this is known as

• groundwater infiltration

• groundwater discharge

• groundwater overdraft

• groundwater discharge