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Pisani's test 2
Question | Answer |
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1. What are the Earth's Natural Resources? | Mineral, Energy, Living, Air, Water, Sunlight, and Soil |
2. What are the two categories of natural resources? | Renewable and Nonrenewable |
3. What are renewable resources? | Can be replaced by nature at a rate close to the rate at which they are used. |
4. What are examples of renewable resources? | Air, Soil, Water, Ice, Vegetation, Sunlight, and Geothermal |
5. What are nonrenewable resources? | Renewed very slowly or not at all |
6. What are examples of nonrenewable resources? | Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Salt, Nuclear power, and Minerals |
7. What is an ore mineral? | The metallic element or the valuable mineral part of the rock. |
8. What is a gangue? | The remaining part of the rock. |
9. What is a mineral | Resources known to be economically feasible for extraction. |
10. What are fossil fuels? | It's nonrenewable and may cause pollution. |
11. What is a benefit of using fossil fuels? | Cheap, easy to extract and use |
12. What is nuclear power? | Energy created by atomic fission. |
13. What is a disadvantages of nuclear power? | It does produce toxic waste that takes millions of years to decompose. |
14. What is an advantage of nuclear power? | It produces very little air pollution. |
15. What is uranium and how is it involved in nuclear power? | It's a radioactive mineral that nuclear energy uses. |
16. What is sustainability? | Ability of future generation to have the same resource as we do. |
17. What is the most important benefit of using renewable resource? | Small impact an environmental and promotes sustainability. |
18. How are environmental cost and economic benefit related? | Extraction and in impact on the environment and use of any resources carries in environmental cost that must be wade against the economic benefits. |
19. How does the way in which some resources are extracted and used affect the Earth's environment? | Can lead to pollution of land, water, or air and it may contribute to global warming and destruction of landscape and in the process. |
20. What are the top three energy sources in the U.S.? | Petroleum, Coal, and Natural Gas. |
21. What are two type of disasters? | Natural and Man made Disasters. |
22. What is natural disaster? | A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard? |
23. What are the top ten natural disasters? | Volcano, Avalanche, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Landslides, Flood, Tsunami, Earthquake, Drought, and Wildfire |
24. What is a cyclone? | A closed, circular fluid motion |
25. What is the eye of the storm? | It has the calmest water and the lowest pressure. |
26. How do cyclones turn in both hemisphere? | Counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. |
27. What is an earthquake? | The result of a sudden of energy from the earth's crust and creates seismic waves. |
28. How are Earthquakes measured? | Measured using a seismograph. |
29. What is a tornado? | A violently rotating column of air that is touching both the ground and a cumulonimbus cloud. |
30. What are the causes of a tornado? | Different temperatures and humidity meet to form thunder clouds. |
31. What is a volcano? | A volcano is an opening in a planet's surface which allows hot magma to escape from below the surface. |
32. What is volcanology? | The study of volcanoes. |
33. What is a tsunami? | A tsunami means harbor waves. |
34. What is a flood? | An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confiness. |
35. What is a wildfire? | A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in the countryside or wildfine. |
36. What is a drought? | A drought is a long period of time in which a certain region receive a shortage of water. |
37. What is an avalanche? | A avalanche is a sudden and drastic drop of snow. |
38. What is a landslide? | A landslide is a movement in the ground and a shallow flow of a debris. |
39. Whats is a firenado? | A firenado is a column of smoke and fire that gets into a tornado. |
40. What is limnic eruption? | A limnic eruption is an explosion of gas from the lake. |