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Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name

Class

Date

Ash from this fossil fuel contains radioactive uranium and thorium and is more radioactive than nuclear waste.

Coal

Oil/ Petroleum

Natural Gas

Largest anthropogenic (human-created) sources of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.

Coal

Oil/ Petroleum

Natural Gas

Primarily burned for the production of electricity.

Coal

Oil/ Petroleum

Natural Gas

The rise of importance of this fossil fuel was related to the invention of the internal combustion engine and rise in commercial aviation. It is associated with transportation.

Coal

Oil/ Petroleum

Natural Gas

Exxon Valdez and the BP Horizon are just 2 of the many examples of disasters involving spills of this fossil fuel into marine environments.

Coal

Oil/ Petroleum

Natural Gas

Natural Gas____________

produces less greenhouse gas than coal

is transported by truck in a liquid form

will be depleted by 2020 at the current usage rate

discovered by Bunsen in 1885

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010....

considered a minor incident compared to other oil spills

resulted in a permanent ban on all off shore drilling

was quickly cleaned up resulting in little loss of wildlife

is the worst spill in US history causing major damage to marine and coastal ecosystems

One of the reasons the new proposal to drill in Alaska is controversial is....

the new drilling site is offshore

the new drilling site is in a highly populated area

the new drilling site is in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge

the new site is located on Mt. McKinley

Mining is risky because.....

Mining disasters such as cave-ins

Methane explosions

Damage to the ecosystem

All of the choices are risks

10.

One of the risks when fracking for natural gas is _________________________

contamination of drinking water

spills resulting in kerogen exposure in the ecosystem

mine collapse

flooding

11.

Alberta Canada is excited to explore unconventional deposit of this fossil fuel....

Coal

Oil

Natural Gas

Uranium

12.

Many say ethanol (turning food crops into a replacement for petroleum-based gasoline) is not a great idea. Three of the statements below would be arguments against ethanol. Which one is not?

dedicating good farmland to grow fuel raises many ethical issues

11% of the world's population is malnourished so using food for fuel is not a good idea

it takes nearly as much energy/fuel to grow corn as what we can get out of it

burning ethanol releases less greenhouse gases than burning gasoline

13.

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

14.

Oil Shales and Oil Sands are....

traditional sources of fossil fuels

unconventional sources of kerogen which are beginning to be utilized

concentrated in the middle east

can be pumped from underground reserves using existing oil rigs.

15.

Deposits of natural gas are most numerous in ________.

South America

Panama

the Middle East

Russia and USA

16.

Fossil fuel burning releases large amounts of _______________.

oxygen

carbon dioxide

nitrogen

carbon monoxide

17.

What is an example of a secondary energy source?

Solar

Coal

Nuclear

Electricity

18.

Cogeneration is

the use of two or more energy sources to generate electricity

the use of two separate turbines to generate electricity

a method of increasing a power plant's capacity factor

the use of a fuel to generate heat and electricity

19.

Traveling alone in a car uses 5.76 MJ of energy per mile. If 4 people go on a trip of 400 miles, what is the MJ/person?

200 MJ

360 MJ

576 MJ

1440MJ

20.

Another term used instead of EROEI is...

Efficiency or Net Energy Yield

Electricity

Unattainable

Environmentally friendly

21.

Which is the cleanest burning fossil fuel?

Coal

Oil

Natural Gas

Biomass

22.

Hydraulic fracking is a method used to obtain what type of fossil fuel?

Coal

Oil

Natural Gas

Nuclear (Uranium)

23.

What do you call the process of drilling and injecting fluid into a ground at a high pressure in order to break or fracture the shale rocks to release natural gas inside?

Drilling

Fracking

Perforation

Sedimentation

24.

One of the problems with finding new fossil fuel deposits in developing countries is that ________.

it is very expensive to transport the deposit elsewhere

their governments seldom allow extraction of the deposit without imposing huge taxes to fund new socialbenefits for the country

international companies move in to harvest the new deposit, and very little money or resource remains inthe country

their governments seldom allow extraction of the deposit without meeting expensive environmentalregulations

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Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 19mins

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