Petroleum

The step needed for sea plants and animals to become hydrocarbons is

• enormous heat and pressure
• shallow burial by sediments
• refining and processing
• drilling and distillation

The job of an oil refinery is to

• transport the crude from the drill site
• separate crude into various types of fuel
• pump crude oil up to the surface
• mix separate types of fuel into crude

Distillation occurs where crude oil is separated into fuels by

• mixing it with corn starch and letting it settle
• putting it under intense pressure until it becomes solid
• heating it to different boiling points
• removing the sulfur particles from it

Aside from distillation, refineries also are responsible for

• removing sulfur air pollutants
• shipping it to individual has stations
• setting the price of gasoline

Crude and refined oil is transported around the US mainly by

• trains (20 mi/hr)
• pipelines (5 mi/hr)
• airplanes (500 mi/hr)
• tankers (70 mi/hr)

Most of the barrel of crude oil is refined into

• jet fuel & heating oil
• diesel & liquefied gas
• gasoline & jet fuel
• diesel & gasoline

ALL of these are steps that ensure US energy security (and reduce the impact of high oil prices), EXCEPT:

• design more fuel-efficient autos
• invade and takeover OPEC countries
• drill for more crude oil in US regions
• use other types of fuels for daily activities

Which of these countries is NOT a member of OPEC?

• Venezuela
• Iraq
• Saudi Arabia
• Mexico

The top 2 crude oil producing US states are

• Michigan and California
• Alaska and Texas
• Florida and Washington
• Oklahoma and Kansas

Drilling, refining, and using petroleum is responsible for which environmental hazard?

• air pollution
• water pollution
• groundwater pollution
• all 3 types of pollution