WorksheetsNonrenewable Resources
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
A nonrenewable resource
Exists is a fixed amount
Is constantly being replenished
Examples: water cycle, solar energy
Fossil Fuels form in what type of condition?
In the presence of oxygen
aerobic
Anaerobic
Which resource is considered to be the "dirtiest"?
Natural Gas
Coal
Petroleum
Crude oil
To form fossil fuels you need three main components. Which of the following is NOT one of those?
Heat
Pressure
Biological organism
Water
In the formation of coal, the final product is called
Lignite
Bituminous coal
Peat
Anthracite
Which of the following is NOT an advantage to using coal?
Energy-dense and cleaner-burning
Easy to extract
Safe to store
Abundant reserves
Petroleum is a fluid mixture of hydrocarbons, water, and
Sulfur
Carbon
Ash
Tailings
Petroleum is formed from
Carbon dioxide
Small people in the ground
Phytoplankton (algae)
Dense forests
Natural gas is burned off or extracted from
Crude oil
Coal
Petroleum
Unnatural gas
Crude oil can be refined into several different products. The type of product that crude oil makes depends on
the amount of time it has been in the ground
the biological organisms it was made out of
the amount of carbon
the temperature at which it is boiled
Petroleum and crude oil release _________ CO2 than coal.
More
Less
What is the most common fuel used for electricity in the U.S.?
Natural gas
Coal
Petroleum
Crude oil
In the formation of coal. Once the biological organisms dies it deteriorates into the ground to form
Lignite
Anthracite
Peat
Natural gas
Which fossil fuel is mostly mined through surface mining?
Petroleum
Crude oil
Natural gas
Coal
What is the cleanest of all the fossil fuels?
Natural gas
Coal
Petroleum
Crude oil
Natural Gas is used for all of the following except
Industrial processes
Electricity generation
All of the following are uses
Residential heating
Natural gas is ____________ than oil.
Lighter
Denser
80-95% of this fossil fuel is methane.
Coal
Natural gas
Petroleum
Crude oil
Methane is ____________ potent than CO2.
More
Less
The process of injecting water, sand, and chemicals under high pressure into a bedrock formation.
Surface mining
Mountaintop removal
Fracking
Strip mining
The unconventional method of mining natural gas is
onshore drilling
surface mining
offshore drilling
fracking
Which oil spill involved a supertanker crashing into a reef?
Exxon Valdez
ANWR
Deepwater Horizon
Gulf of Mexico Oil spill
The deepwater horizon oil spill occurred in the
Pacific Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Prince William Sound
Arctic Ocean
Of the two oil spills, which released more oil into the environment?
Deepwater Horizon
Exxon Valdez
ANWR was an oil spill that released 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's wildlife refuge.
True
False
