Energy Resources Quiz

According to the table, the U.S. gets its energy primarily from what types of sources?

• Rewnewables
• Non-renewables

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Of the four main U.S. energy sources, which is not a fossil fuel? Carefully type your answer below; MUST spell correctly to earn credit.

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If the U.S. were to run out of the second most major source of energy production, what sector would be the most affected?

• Industrial
• Residential
• Transportation
• Electric Power

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What is the source of the third most major energy source in the U.S.?

• Inorganic rocks compressed by heat and pressure over millions of years.
• Organic material buried in peat bogs (swamps) compressed by heat and pressure over millions of years.
• Organic material buried in marine sediments compressed by heat and pressure over millions of years.
• Formed in supernovae billions of years ago.

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How does boiling water produce mechanical energy in a turbine?

• Steam from the water is forced at high pressure through a line, past a turbine's blades, causing them to spin.
• It causes atoms to vibrate energetically, causing the turbine's blades to move.
• Convection currents within the boiling water move past a turbine's blades, causing them to spin.
• The natural magnetism of water turns a magnet attached to a turbine's blades, cause it to spin.

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Which of the following best illustrates how coral reefs and estuaries might be most directly affected by the fossil fuel industry?

• Increased earthquakes from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
• Increased oceanic noise pollution with waves from seismic blasting.
• Increased occurrences of oceanic oil spills polluting coastal habitats.
• Radioactive waste water from nuclear power plants leaching into the ocean and causing genetic mutations.

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Considering the following chart, which of the following would be the best plan of action to reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation in the U.S.?

• Replace all coal power plants with nuclear power plants.
• Replace all natural gas power plants with petroleum power plants.
• Replace all petroleum power plants with nuclear power plants.
• Replace all nuclear power plants with natural gas power plants.

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Why is nuclear energy problematic?

• It's clean energy, but is dangerous due to common reactor meltdowns and harmful emissions.
• It's a non-renewable resource, so it is a source of energy that is very harmful to our environment.
• It's clean energy, but has negative stigma attached to it because of rare reactor meltdowns and the atomic bomb.
• It's a non-renewable resource, and even though it is clean energy, we're going to run out of uranium in the next 40-50 years.

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What is a direct result within the carbon cycle by our use of fossil fuels as our primary energy source?

• Increased plant biomass due to increased atmospheric CO2 being used in photosynthesis.
• Decreased oceanic absorption of atmospheric CO2.
• Increased atmospheric CO2 due to carbon emissions from combustion.
• Decreased dinosaur bone discoveries because we've refined them for oil.

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Richmond Hill gets a large portion of its electric energy from what energy source?

• Solar
• Coal
• Wind
• Nuclear