Exam 15: Nonrenewable Energy

According to the U.S.Energy Administration and the Worldwatch Institute, when the harmful costs of using coal are included in the cost of coal, it becomes

Use the Figure above to answer the following question(s). -Which letter indicates the coal called lignite.

The point at which pressure in a well begins to drop and production begins to decline is called:

The United States uses what percentage of all the oil produced in the world?

The worst nuclear power accident in the United States occurred in 1979 in what state?

According to EPA, people who drank water contaminated by coal ash slurry over a long period of time had a 1 in 50 chance of getting cancers of the lung and bladder.

Burning coal, along with removing pollutants from the emissions, results in the accumulation of all of the following, except

Which of the following is not a member of OPEC?

In order to get high-quality energy you must use high-quality energy. This rule is the result of which of the following?

Probable reserves, with a 50% chance of recovery, are called ____________________.

The most common nuclear reactors are heavy-water reactors.

China is the world's single largest consumer of oil in 2009.

Extracting heavy oil releases less greenhouse gases per barrel than conventional oil.

China and the United States are the two largest consumers of crude oil, and have about 20% of the world's proven crude oil reserves.

Which of the following countries has the largest of the proven reserves of coal?

The most serious nuclear accident occurred in 1986 in the ____________________ in the USSR.

The 13 countries that make up OPEC have about two-thirds of the world's proven crude oil reserves.

Solid coal can be converted into synthetic natural gas by a process called coal ____________________.

In the U.S., coal-burning power plants produce what percentage of the electricity?

Proven and unproven global reserves of conventional crude oil we be 80% depleted between 2050 and 2100.