Mining
Type of mining that involves extracting valuable minerals such as gold from river sediment.
What is placer mining?
This health condition commonly afflicts miners.
What is black lung disease?
Crude oil is separated into usable products such as heating oil, petroleum, and gasoline using this technique.
What is fractional distillation?
This gas makes up the majority (50-90%) of natural gas.
What is methane?
Site of the largest nuclear disaster ever.
What is Chernobyl?
This term refers to the process of restoring land affected by mining activities to its natural state.
What is reclamation?
10% of the United States' coal is extracted in this explosive way.
What is mountaintop removal?
This part of the world is especially rich in underground oil deposits.
What is the Middle East?
Natural gas releases _____% less CO2 than coal.
What is 50% less?
This iconic Parisian landmark is illuminated by nuclear power.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
These are the leftover materials (including rocks, soil and chemicals) that remain after desired minerals have been extracted from ore.
What are tailings?
These are the two major methods used for mining coal.
What is strip mining and subsurface mining?
Oil industry experts calculate we have already extracted nearly half of the world's oil reserves. Projections indicates that oil supplies will last this long at current consumption rates.
What is ~80 years?
Natural gas is found above these [two] types of fossil fuel deposits.
What are coal and oil?
In what US state has a nuclear meltdown occurred?
What is Pennsylvania? (@ the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor)
Coltan is a mineral ore that contains two valuable metals: cobalt and _____.
What is tantalum?
North America has abundant coal reserves; this much is located in the United States.
What is 1/4 or 25%
This area on Alaska's North Slope contains billions of barrels of recoverable oil beneath the frozen tundra.
What is ANWR?
This many homes in the United States are heated by natural gas.
What is 50%?
What is the half life of Uranium-235?
What is 4.5 billion years?
This metal was extracted in the Elizabeth Mine in Vermont; Dartmouth students were diving into the Superfund site's bright green waters.
What is copper?
Coal generates this much electricity in the United States.
What is 1/2 of the US's electricity?
Canada has the world's largest supply of these deposits of moist sand and clay containing bitumen - a thick heavy form of petroleum.
What are tar sands?
It's been 3 years since the natural gas explosion in this Maine town injured 5 and killed a firefighter. The maintenance man smelled propane and evacuated the building just prior to the blast.
Where is Farmington?
To produce nuclear fission, the nuclei of large, unstable atoms (such as uranium) are bombarded with these particles.
What are neutrons?