Renewable Resources
Nonrenewable resources
Extracting Processes
Throw back Questions
Random
100
Reason why something is classified as renewable or nonrenewable.
What is the time it takes to get more of the resource?
100
Ways to reduce the affects of mining/mine less.
What is use alternative energy sources, reduce reuse recycle, and reduce the consumption of unnecessary items?
100
How do we obtain coal?
What is mine for it?
100
Two reasons people live in urban cities.
What is diversity, entertainment, jobs, income, etc.
100
In the nursery rhyme, who sat on a wall before having a great fall?
What is humpty dumpty?
200
Two types of renewable resources.
What is solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, hydroelectric, etc?
200
Two ways mining negatively affects the environment.
What is contamination and alteration of soil, contamination of streams and wetlands, deforestation, erosion, many diseases?
200
Two resources we drill for.
What is oil and natural gas?
200
Two ways agriculture negatively affects the environment.
What is overgrazing, deforestation, pollution, desertification, freshwater depletion, etc.
200
What type of fish is Nemo?
What is a clownfish?
300
1 pro and 1 con of wind energy.
Pros: Renewable and clean, cheap, efficient use of land space
Cons: Noise and visual pollution, unpredictable, etc
300
What is peat? Where is it found? What do we use it for?
Answer 2/3 questions for credit.
What is
accumulation of partially decayed plant matter- plants that have been buried
Alternative for firewood
Found in bogs or marshes
300
Which is NOT a type of surface mining?
Open pit mining
Mountaintop removal
Digging Tunnels
Strip mining
What is digging tunnels?
300
Definition of hypoxia.
What is dead zones where oxygen levels have decreased to where they cannot support life?
300
Number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8?
400
Top renewable energy used in US.
What is wind energy?
400
The two reasons why we mine.
What is economic gain and resources?
400
What type of mining is done by uranium dissolved into water below the surface, the solution brought to the surface, and the mineral recovered?
What is in-situ mining?
400
Definition of eutrophication.
What is overrich in plant nutrients. As a consequence, it becomes overgrown in algae and other aquatic plants?
400
A scientist who studies rocks is called a _____.
What is a geologist?
500
Most abundant energy source on Earth.
What is solar energy?
500
Reason why something would be considered a "fossil fuel".
Where we are most likely to find fossil fuels.
What is- they are fossil fuels because the resource is made from decomposed plants/organisms.
We are most likely to find them in marshes/bogs/swamps.
500
Process is defined as the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc. to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.
What is fracking?
500
Heat islands are _______. Why do they occur?
What are islands of heat over cities due to asphalt absorbing heat during the day and releasing heat at night?
500
Relationship between peat and coal.
What is peat is turned into sedimentary rock then with heat and pressure it is turned into coal.