By Golly What Is It?
How is it Made? / How Old is it?
Finding Coal...
How Do You Use It?
Disgusting Coal Pollution.
100
Coal is what type of rock?
What is sedimentary.
100
Where is coal usually formed? In what type of environment?
What is swamps.
100
On how many continents are coal deposits found?
What is 7.
100
How much (a percentage) of America's electricity is generated by coal?
What is 50%.
100
What important country has not adopted the Kyoto protocol?
What is the US.
200
What element is coal primarily composed of?
What is Carbon.
200
What is the name for the dead plant matter that is eventually turned into coal after undergoing various metamorphic processes?
What is peat.
200
Name the major types of coal mining.
What are Surface mining and Underground mining
200
How is coal used in a power plant?
What is "it is burned to create steam that spins the turbines".
200
What does a scrubber do?
What is removes unwanted gases from the exhaust stream.
300
Which type of coal is the softest?
What is lignite
300
The greater the pressure applied, the _______ the coal.
What is harder.
300
Which coal mining method is used when shafts are drilled to access beds deep beneath the earth's surface?
What is Underground.
300
Coal is burnt to make what product that is necessary for steel production.
What is coke.
300
Which form of mercury can be removed by a scrubber?
What is Oxidized Mercury Hg2+.
400
Coal burning is one of the largest sources of ______ emissions worldwide.
What is carbon dioxide.
400
What is the name for the process that creates coal?
What is coalification
400
Name three coal deposit regions of the United States.
What is Western, Interior and Appalachian.
400
Name the two types of coal liquefaction.
What is direct and indirect.
400
Why should we shut down old plants?
What is they are dirty and produce global warming pollution.
500
Name the four types of coal.
What is lignite, subbituminous, bituminous, anthracite.
500
How old can coal be.
What is 400 million years old.
500
What state is our country's largest coal producer?
What is Wyoming
500
Coal liquefaction is done so that it can be used as a substitute for oil. List two materials that can then be made from the by product.
What is (any two apply) synthetic waxes, ultra-clean petroleum and diesel and lubricants.
500
What is the name of the industrialized countries in the Kyoto protocol that have the strongest regulations.
What are Annex 1 countries.
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