WorksheetsChapter 9 Test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Passive solar heat depends on sunlight passing through___________________. Active solar power comes as a result of a ______________________.
What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?
How does evaporation help make minerals?
If a resource occurs naturally in the environment, cannot be made from other substances, and there is a limited supply of it, what is this an example of?
Deep groundwater reservoirs take thousands of years to ______________________. Scientists believe some groundwater is so deep it will take millions of years of ______________________ to exchange with surface water.
Why isn't freshwater found equally around the Earth?
Water sources are unequally distributed, and a lot of the freshwater is in glaciers and ice caps.
How does fracking work?
Pressurized fluids break up layers of shale rock. They force out the oil and natural gas, which is then collected.
Pressurized fluids are inserted into different kinds of rock. They force out the groundwater, and the fossil fuels are extracted.
What is the difference between minerals and ores?
An ore is non-living and solid with little value unless it occurs in large amounts, in which makes it a mineral.
A mineral is a non-living, solid substance made of elements. Ore is a large deposit of minerals in the ground.
Areas with hot springs use a large amount of _______________________ because it is located over an area of __________________________.
What kind of resource is solar power?
How are biofuels and fossil fuels similar?
They both require more energy to produce or refine them than they make.
Why are some minerals rare and unevenly distributed?
Why is there an unequal distribution of water around the world?
Why is the amount of groundwater limited or unavailable?
A lot of the groundwater is in areas where there is a higher chance of it being polluted or contaminated.
A lot of the groundwater is ice or found only in permafrost.
A lot of the groundwater is below a deep layer of porous rock which cannot be easily accessed by drilling.
A lot of the groundwater is in mineral formations in the mantle, and it takes millions of years to exchange with surface water.
How do dams generate electricity?
