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Questions
1. Most of the earth's total fresh water can be found in:
A. oceans
B. groundwater and aquifers
C. ice caps and glaciers
D. lakes, rivers, and estuaries
2. Petroleum and Natural Gas is formed from:
A. Acidic matter in underground aquifers
B. Concentrated mud from the Mesozoic era
C. Fossilized remains of shelled marine creatures
D. Fossilized plants like ferns
3. If over-heated cooling water from powerplants is released into a boy of water, it could cause a lowered oxygen problem known as:
A. net-metering
B. nitrogen-fixation
C. thermal pollution
D. diadromous
4. One controversial plan for the nuclear waste of the United States is to sequester it in an underground catacomb at:
A. Yucca Mountain
B. Indian Point
C. Storm King
D. Antarctica
5. The process of using the earth's geological properties to warm up pumped water and use it for heating and energy production is called:
A. Hydrofracking
B. Thermal pollution
C. Hydropower
D. Geothermal energy
6. One disadvantage of most renewable energy sources is:
A. Reliance on non-domestic sources
B. Finite resources that could be depleted
C. High initial start-up costs
D. Low Greenhouse gas emissions
7. The highly centralized system of energy produced in relatively few large powerplants and transmitted by powerlines and transformers over large areas is know in the US as:
A. The Grid
B. The Matrix
C. Net-Metering
D. Trophic Diagram
8. The area of land that drains into a body of water is known as a/n:
A. Aquifer
B. Estuary
C. Watershed
D. Tributary