Alternative Energy
Noise pollution is produced by this alternative energy source?
Wind Turbines
A rock with enough valuable minerals to be mined for profit.
Ore
What do we primarily use oil for?
Transportation
What type of rock do we frack?
Shale
What gas is released into the atmosphere when burning fossil fuels?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
What is a disadvantage of nuclear energy?
Major hazards involved in nuclear waste disposal
Cost of building safe nuclear facilities
Concern over the possibility of a serious nuclear accident
Where would you find a placer deposit?
Stream beds
In power plants, the force of steam is used to spin turbines to do what?
Generate Electricity
Environmentalists are mostly concerned with the impact of fracking on
Groundwater
(Point-Source Pollution)
What is the primary origin of electricity in the United States?
Coal and Natural Gas
Water flowing through hot rocks is what type of energy?
Geothermal
Hot mineral solutions flowing through cracks in rocks are most likely to produce
Veins
Plastic is made by what fossil fuel?
Petroleum (crude oil).
This new advancement in technology has made it possible to be more efficient with each fracking well.
Horizontal drilling
Photovoltaic cells are used to collect energy from what source?
Solar Energy
In nuclear fission reactors (nuclear power plants), nuclei are split by fast-moving
Neutrons
Where would you find mafic minerals in a magma chamber? Daily Double for saying why.
The bottom
Double: They crystallize first and are dense.
What is produced in the process of carbonization?
Coal
(CO2 and methane are produced during the formation of coal)
What substance is in fracking fluid to hold open cracks in the oil shale?
Sand
What is the isotope that produces Nuclear energy and what do we do to it?
Uranium 235, fission
Solar energy stored in material such as wood, grain, sugar, and municipal waste is called
Biomass
The mineral that gold is often associated with in hydrothermal veins.
What type of environment did the coal formation process begin?
Ancient swamps
What type of gas are people concerned about escaping into the atmosphere from a fracking well?
Methane (40% more potent in the atmosphere as CO2)
(Point-Source Pollution)
What resource began as microorganisms on the ocean floor?
Petroleum (Oil) & Natural Gas