Mining Nonrenewable Resources Review

A natural resource that can be used up. Oil, natural gas, and coal

• Non-renewable resources

• Renewable resources

Why is the conservation of natural resources important?

• because many resources are nonrenewable

• because natural resources are all renewable

• because many natural resources are inexhaustible

• because conservation is practiced by most people

Coal is a natural resource. Why is coal considered nonrenewable?

• Coal will never run out.

• No new coal is being produced on Earth.

• Coal is used to produce energy and not materials.

• Coal is being used faster than it is being produced.

What do you call the process of drilling and injecting fluid into a ground at a high pressure in order to break or fracture the shale rocks to release natural gas inside?

• Drilling

• Fracking

• Perforation

• Sedimentation

What greenhouse gas has a higher warming potential than carbon dioxide and is released by burning natural gas?

• carbon monoxide

• methane

• oxygen

• nitrogen

One of the main disadvantages of nuclear power is that it

• pollutes the air.
• pollutes water.
• produces too little electricity.
• generates radioactive waste.

Earth will eventually run out of certain kinds of energy resources. These are called nonrenewable energy resources. Which answer lists ONLY nonrenewable energy resources?

• solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric

• natural gas, wind, and water.

• gasoline, solar, and nuclear.

• coal, oil, and natural gas.

Ore is 

• any type of rock
• a rock with metals
• a rock with metals worth something to someone
• a rock with minerals

Which regulation requires miners to clean up after themselves?

• General Mining Act of 1872
• Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
• Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

Extraction of a metal ore or fuel resource such as coal from a deep underground deposit

• open-pit mining
• contour strip mining
• surface mining
• subsurface mining