PETROLEUM
COAL
PROPANE
NATURAL GAS
URANIUM
100
This is the major use of petroleum
What is transportation?
100
World leader of known reserves
What is the United States?
100
C3H8
What is the chemical formula for propane?
100
By thousands of miles of pipelines
What is the main transportation method for natural gas?
100
The major use of uranium today
What is the production of electricity?
200
Almost half of all petroleum is refined into this product
What is gasoline?
200
This is the main transportation method for coal
What is primarily by trains?
200
Dr. Walter Snelling in 1911
Who discovered propane?
200
The major use of natural gas in homes
What is heating?
200
Atoms combine to produce energy in this process
What is fusion?
300
Texas, Alaska, California, Louisiana, and Oklahoma
What are the top oil-producing states?
300
Wyoming, West Virginia, and Kentucky
What are the top coal-producing states?
300
Propane at standard temperature and pressure
What is a gas?
300
By the cubic foot
What is the method for measuring natural gas?
300
The part of the power plant where fission takes place
What is the reactor?
400
Gasoline, heating fuel, and kerosene
What are three petroleum products?
400
The major use of coal is to produce this
What is electricity?
400
Takes up 1/270 the space
What is liquid propane versus gaseous propane?
400
This sector of the economy is the largest consumer
What is industry?
400
The isotope of uranium that splits
What is U-235?
500
Forty-two gallons
How many gallons are in a barrel of oil?
500
Two-thirds of U.S. coal is mined by this method
What is surface mining?
500
Propane under moderate pressure or cooled to -45o Fahrenheit
What is a liquid?
500
Texas, Wyoming, and Oklahoma
What are the three leading natural gas producing states?
500
The particle that causes fission when it strikes an atom of U-235
What is a neutron?
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