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Fossil Fuels and Energy Quest

For each of the following categories/questions, you should be able to list, explain, or describe everything related to the topic. Your resources for this test include, but are not limited to the following:

Energy Webquest/Note Sheet

Coal Notes Sheet

Oil and Natural Gas Notes Sheet

Fossil Fuel Comparison Chart

Last Mountain Movie Questions Sheet

ANWR Reading and Questions/Fracking Videos

ENERGY

What is Energy? What are the 2 types?

What are the types and examples of Potential energy?

FOSSIL FUELS

Understand the process that forms fossil fuels? Where and How do they form? Under what conditions?

What are the major events in history associated with Fossil Fuels?

What are the various uses of each of the fossil fuels?

How do the fossil fuels compare to each other as far as abundance, use, pollution, cost, efficiency, transportation?

CASE STUDY: FRACKING

What is fracking? Be able to describe the process of fracking (do not worry about specific vocab other than what is listed below)

Why are we fracking?

Where are we fracking?

What are the major concerns that fracking has caused?

CASE STUDY: MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL

What is mountain top removal and how does it work?

What are the 2 main sides of the argument on mountain top removal?

What is reclamation and how does it relate to mountain top removal?

What are the major concerns that removal has caused?

  • Water Supply
  • Air Pollution
  • Disrupting Environment
  • Coal Impoundments

What is the region where a lot of mountain top removal is taking place?

CASE STUDY: DEEP SEA DRILLING

Why is it necessary to use Deep Sea Drilling to extract oil?

Where was the largest oil spill from deep sea drilling and how long did it take to plug?

Why was it so difficult to stop the leak?

How much oil leaked into the ocean?

How far below the surface of the ocean do we need to go to access the oil?

CASE STUDY: ANWR

Where is ANWR? Why was it originally established?

What is the environment of ANWR currently like?

What are the major concerns about animals that drilling has caused?

What is the reasoning for those who want to drill in ANWR?

What is the reasoning for those who are opposed to drilling?

If we are successful and getting oil out of ANWR, for how long could the US last on the supply from ANWR alone?

Study tips

* Go through all notes and highlight key phrases and terms. This will help with the completion questions

* Make up essay questions about each form of energy. Assign point values to the questions.

* Don’t was time on memorizing numbers unless it is a significant date. Instead use the numbers to make comparisons. EX coal supplies more electricity than oil