Vocabulary 1
A resource that cannot be replaced easily.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
A resource that can be replaced by natural means in a relatively short amount of time.
What is a renewable resource?
Materials on Earth that are available for our use.
What are natural resources?
This is how we get most of the natural gas we use.
What is offshore drilling?
This amount of energy needs are supplied by coal
What is about 25 percent?
Formed when the remains of plants and animals are buried quickly.
What are fossil fuels?
The liquid form of fossil fuel.
What is petroleum?
Another name for petroleum.
What is crude oil?
Natural gas burns cleaner because it does not contain sulfur. This is an example of...
What is the advantage of natural gas over oil?
These are the three grades (types) of coal.
What are anthracite, bituminous, and lignite?
Chemicals produced from oil.
What are petrochemicals?
A factory that separates crude oil into different products.
What is a refinery?
This happens to crude oil after it is pumped up from the earth.
What is sent to refineries?
The largest known oil field in the United States.
What is Prudhoe Bay Field in Alaska?
Most nuclear energy depends on this.
Unrefined oil; petroleum.
What is crude oil?
a fossil fuel found in a gaseous state often found close to deposits of oil.
What is natural gas?
Natural gas is often found here.
What are near deposits of oil?
A ___________ separates __________ into different oil products.
What is a refinery separates crude oil?
These are some uses of nuclear energy.
What is to produce electricity and to power some ships or submarines?
Formed from plant material that was quickly buried and fossilized under great pressure.
What is coal?
A mineral used in nuclear reactors to produce electricity and to power some ships and submarines.
What is uranium?
Plastics, paint, fabrics, make-up, and cologne are examples of...
what are uses of petrochemicals?
This is the reason nuclear power has declined.
What are the fear of accidents and the difficulty in disposing of the waste material?
Nuclear energy is considered a nonrenewable resource because of this.
What is, it depends on a nonrenewable resource?