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WorksheetsChapter 9 Environmental Science Putman
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
_____ energy resources are used up faster than they can be produced and the amount of these materials are finite.
a)
renewable
b)
nonrenewable
c)
natural
d)
wind
2.
_____ energy sources replenish themselves or are continuously present as a feature of the solar system.
a)
renewable
b)
nonrenewable
c)
natural
d)
petroleum
3.
____ is a naturally occurring substance of use to humans that can be potentially be extracted.
a)
reserve
b)
resource
c)
wind
d)
petroleum
4.
____ are known deposits from which materials can be extracted profitably with existing technology.
a)
natural resources
b)
nonrenewable resources
c)
resource
d)
reserves
5.
____ mining involves removing the material on top of a vein of coal.
a)
surface
b)
strip
c)
all of the others
6.
_____ is a disease that miners can get from the accumulation of coal dust in the lungs.
a)
black lung
b)
asbestos's
c)
coal lung
d)
carbon dioxide poising
7.
____ is when the top of a mountain is removed to get at the coal vein.
a)
vein exposure
b)
mountain exposure
c)
mountaintop removal
d)
coal removal
8.
_____ are a combination of clay, sand, water and thick oil called bitumen.
a)
Tar sands
b)
oil shale
c)
tight oil
d)
hydraulic fracturing
9.
_____ contains a high viscosity mixture of hydrocarbons that must be heated to extract the oil.
a)
tar sands
b)
oil shale
c)
tight oil
d)
crude oil
10.
____ consist of a mixture of hydrocarbons with a low viscosity which cannot flow because the rock containing it is not porous.
a)
tar sands
b)
oil shale
c)
tight oil
d)
tight sands
11.
Nuclear disintegration releases energy from the nucleus as ___.
a)
proton acceleration
b)
neutron acceleration
c)
half-life
d)
radiation
12.
An atom that has a nucleus that will split is said to be ____.
a)
fussion
b)
fissionable
c)
combinable
d)
discontinuous
13.
____ are nuclei that release neutrons when they split and cause another reaction to occur.
a)
fissionable
b)
chain reaction
c)
reactor
d)
control rods
14.
A _____ is a device that permits sustained, controlled nuclear fission chain reaction.
a)
fission plant
b)
nuclear plant
c)
fusion reactor
d)
nuclear reactor
15.
Nuclear ______ reactor are nuclear fission reactors that form new nuclear fuel as they operate to produce electricity.
a)
heavy water
b)
gas cooled
c)
boiling water
d)
breeder
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