Mineral And Energy Resources Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. Inexhaustible energy resource that is used to power the Hubble Space Telescope

2. What is biodegradable?

3. Economically Depleted

4. Method of natural gas extraction also known as "fracking."

5. Created from turbines that are spun by the mechanical energy of flowing water.

6. Any discarded substance that poses a potential risk to the health of humans or other organisms.

7. Mountaintop Removal

8. Stored in the earth's mantle that can be used to produce electricity as well as to heat and cool homes.

9. Which is the first step in coal formation?

10. Nuclear energy is released during?

11. What is the waste material that must be separated from an ore?

12. What is landfill trash

13. How can reclamation affect land?

14. Which has the highest content of carbon?

15. In which of the following places establishment of the Atomic Energy Institute took place in 1954

16. Energy resource that is based on fission

17. Method of conservation in which items are processed to be used again

18. By what other name organic fuel is reffered

19. What is an important use of petroleum?

20. Which non-metallic minerals are of inorganic origin

21. Chemical containing liquid that is formed when water or other fluids soak through layers of solid waste.

22. Which vast alluvial plain tract of _____ is devoid of minerals of economic use.

23. Refers primarily to plant materials and animal wastes that can be burned for the purpose of providing heat or electricity

24. What is hydro energy?

25. A solid fossil fuel made mostly of carbon with small amounts of sulfur and mercury