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WorksheetsCh. 19: Fossil Fuels and Such
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What type of petroleum is found in oil sands or tar sands?
bitumen
kerosene
naphtha
yedoma
Clearing the forest, and strip mining the land, mixing the deposits with hot water and chemicals, and storing wastewater in toxic tailings lakes are part of the process to take oil from where?
tar sands
mountaintops
underground reservoirs
the ocean
One of the biggest buyers of tar sands and oil is who?
USA
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Canada
How much Bitumen is found within 70 meters of earth’s surface?
20%
25%
50%
75%
What percentage of tailings water can be recycled?
75%
50%
15%
60%
To facilitate the transport of tar sands oil to the U.S., TransCanada constructed a large pipeline called the ______________________________
Keystone XL Pipeline
North Dakota Access Pipeline
Portland-Montreal Pipeline
Trans-Northern Pipeline
In the united states, coal, oil, and natural gas supply how much of the total energy demand?
82%
94%
67%
78%
What expresses the difference between energy returned and energy invested?
Net energy
GDP
Energy quota
Energy sources are assessed using what?
energy returned on investment
net energy
source calculation
energy algebra
Fossil fuels were formed hundreds of millions of years ago by what?
organisms performing photosynthesis
Dinosaurs
chemical reactions between water and ancient soil
[Insert another very clearly BS answer option here]
________ is a hard substance formed from woody organic matter compressed into a dense, solid, carbon structures
coal
shale
gneiss
schist
How is coal primarily extracted?
strip mining, subsurface mining, and mountaintop removal
strip mining, seabed mining, opencast mining
subsurface mining, mountaintop removal, deep drilling
digging straight down until you find it
What is unrefined oil extracted from the ground called?
crude oil
heavy oil
bitumen
shale
__________________ is a gas comprising primarily of methane (CH4) and other volatile hydrocarbons
natural gas
methane
carbon monoxide
smog
True or false: Petroleum usually refers to oil, but may also refer to oil and natural gas collectively.
true
false
How are oil sands formed?
when crude oil deposits are partially degraded by bacteria
when crude oil deposits are filled with bacteria that create it as a by-product from their waste
when oil sinks and settles into the sand at the bottom of the ocean
when organisms die and settle to the seabed, they are broken down into oil over time
______________ is a sedimentary rock filled with organic matter that can be processed into shale oil
oil shale
limestone
sandstone
oil silt
_______________ is a solid consisting of molecules of methane embedded in a crystal lattice of water molecules and is found in sediments in the arctic and ocean floor.
methane hydrate
crude oil
carbon hydrate
waterlogged coal
Which reserves are both technologically and economically recoverable?
proven recoverable reserves
offshore reserves
commercially recoverable reserves
certified reserves
What is done during refining?
separating molecules by size
separating atoms by size
separating types of oil based on their density
separating types of oil by their extraction location
How much gasoline comes out of refined oil?
49.2%
25%
55.8%
67.3%
How much diesel and heating oil come out of refined oil?
25%
40%
15%
20%
How are oil products separated during refining?
distillation and weight
distillation and density
vertical mixing
weight and molecular properties
What is used to maximize usefulness of heavy oils by making it lighter?
cracking
snapping
popping
fracturing
What increases amount of gasoline from crude oil?
reforming
superheating
firing
molecular manipulation
What creates cleaner gasoline by removing certain chemicals?
treating
cleaning
refining
filtering
Analysts calculate the ________________ ratio, by dividing the total remaining reserves by the annual rate of production
reserves-to-production
quantity
production value
What is the estimated time left for oil reserves?
53 years
120 years
67 years
86 years
What is the estimated time left for natural gas reserves?
54 years
69 years
52 years
95 years
How much time is left for coal reserves?
110 years
54 years
78 years
123 years
What is peak oil?
extraction of any nonrenewable resource will reach a peak, then decline
extraction of any renewable resource will reach a peak, then decline
Eventually, extraction of any nonrenewable resource will reach a peak and immediately cut off
the maximum amount of oil that can come from a reserve
Did the US hit peak oil?
Yes, in 1970
Yes, in 2012
No
No, but it is estimated to as of 2020
___________________ mining removes entire mountaintops to access the coal seams running through them.
Mountaintop removal
strip
underground
I really don't see how it's possible to get this one wrong, it's the most obvious answer in the entire quiz.
_________________ technology allows drillers to bore down vertically and then curve to drill horizontally
directional drilling
dynamic drilling
squiggly digging
directional mining
___________________ pumps chemically treated water under high pressure into layers of rock to crack them
hydraulic fracturing
well mining
water drilling
shale fracturing
Roughly _______ of oil and ______ of the natural gas extracted in the US today come from offshore sites.
35%
10%
10%
35%
50%
25%
25%
50%
At a typical oil or gas well, how much of a deposit may remain in the ground after primary extraction?
two-thirds
one-third
three-fourths
five-tenths
In 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and leaked 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for how long?
87 days
1 year
53 days
143 days
Eminent domain is used in some cases of oil or natural gas mining or transportation. It is a policy where courts can set aside what?
private property rights
human rights
noise policies
ethical regulations
In 1973, which organization resolved to stop selling oil to the USA and created an energy crisis?
OPEC
OSHA
OWCA
________________ describes the ability to obtain a given amount of output while using less energy input
energy efficiency
net energy use
energy value
energy differences
What describes the practice of reducing wasteful or unnecessary energy use?
energy conservation
energy preservation
energy effciency
energy consideration
___________________ is the energy use per dollar of gross domestic product
energy intensity
energy gross
energy total
energy quota
___________________ is a process in which excess heat produced during the generation of electricity is captured and used to heat nearby workplaces and homes, and to produce other kinds of power
cogeneration
energy partnerships
energy conservation
energy codependency
Which program labels refrigerators, dishwashers, and other appliances for their efficiency?
The Energy Star Program
The Energy Marking Program
The Energy Tracking Program
The Energy Sun Program
