Willet
These are the 3 types of fossil fuels.
What are coal, oil, and natural gas?
This is an incredibly common use of natural gas in developed nations.
What is heating homes?
What is the name for the highest grade of coal, or hard coal, that is so rare?
What is antracite?
How is natural gas collected?
What is hydraulic fracturing, or fracking?
This is the leading argument for the use of hydraulic fracturing.
What is the economy, or job creation?
This fossil fuel is the one most commonly used in America.
What is oil?
This is a common use of natural gas in most homes that relates to nutrition.
What is the gas stove, or range? What is cooking?
What is the process by which molten iron is extracted from iron ore using coke from coal?
What is smelting?
What compounds emitted from a coal power plant are responsible for the production of acid rain?
What are nitric and sulfur oxides?
This is the approximate fraction of energy generated by oil in the United States.
What is one-third?
This is material and process required for the formation of fossil fuels.
What are organic material, heat, pressure, and time?
This fuel consists of partially compressed organic material and is most abundant in northern Europe.
What is peat?
Why is anthracite more desirable as a fuel resource, if available?
What is cleaner burning?
In what type of sedimentary rock do we find large deposits of natural gas?
What is shale?
This is the purpose of condensers in a power plant.
What is recapturing liquid water?
This is the country with the largest coal reserves.
What is the United States?
This is another word for brown coal.
What is lignite?
Which fossil fuel is most likely to release mercury into the atmosphere when combusted?
What is coal?
This critical component of most power plants is turned by the force of steam in order to drive a generator.
What is a turbine?
This is the most common use, or repurposing, of the waste product known as coal ash.
What is concrete?
These are two key types of products made from petroleum.
What are fuels (e.g., gasoline) and plastics?
What is the penultimate (second-to-last) grade of coal?
What is bituminous coal?
What South American country has the greatest oil reserves?
What is Venezuela?
This area, abbreviated ANWR, has been the subject of a long battle over oil drilling
These are the top three arguments against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
What are pollution of groundwater, potential release of methane, and earthquakes?