Gly Test 3 Practice Ch 23

1. ________ is a nonrenewable resource.

Solar power

Water

Petroleum

Timber

2. By the year 2015, the world's population will probably have just reached or slightly surpassed ________ people.

70 million

7 billion

70 billion

7 million

3. ________ is the main fuel used in nuclear fission reactors to produce electricity.

Thorium-232

Uranium-235

Thorium-238

Uranium-239

4. ________ is used in pencils and as a solid lubricant.

Gypsum

Bornite

Graphite

Galena

5. The United States, with about 6 % of the world's population, uses about ________ of the world's total, annual, energy production.

9%

30%

3%

15%

6. Of the following fossil fuels, ________ is most likely to have the lowest sulfur content and smallest volume of solid ash residue.

Bituminous coal

Natural gas

Lignite

Heavy, asphaltic, crude oil

7. ________ has the largest, current production and reserves of crude oil.

Offshore Japan

Texas

Central and eastern Saudi Arabia

The North Sea field

8. ________ are used as abrasives.

Diamond and garnet

Calcite and gypsum

Apatite and galena

Talc and graphite

9. ________ supplies the largest percentage of energy consumed annually in the United States.

Petroleum

Coal

Hydroelectricity

Uranium

10. ________ accounts for the majority of the coal burned annually in the United States.

Production of carbon black, synthetic diamonds, and graphite

Coke manufacture for the steel industry

Home and industrial space heating

Generation of electricity

11. ________ is too soft to be used as an abrasive for steel, glasses, and most silicate rocks.

Corundum

Diamond

Calcite

Garnet

12. ________ is an essential component of plasters and plasterboard.

Apatite

Garnet

Talc

Gypsum

13. Bauxite is an ore of ________.

Iron

Tin

Gold

Aluminum

14. Ore deposits of ________ form by prolonged, intense, tropical weathering of specific kinds of bedrock.

Silver

Mercury

Aluminum

Magnesium

15. The Geysers and Larderello are ________ facilities in California and Italy, respectively.

Geothermal power

Hydroelectric

Copper mining

Diamond mining

16. ________ are both calcium-bearing minerals.

Calcite and gypsum

Bauxite and kaolin

Quartz and plagioclase

Halite and sylvite

17. ________ are important fertilizer minerals with their correct elements.

Halite and calcite

Sylvite and gypsum

Cassiterite and albite

Apatite and sylvite

18. Which one of the following statements is most likely correct?

By 2010, imported petroleum will account for over 50 % of U.S. consumption.

North and South America have about equal reserves of good-grade coals.

Coal imports into the United States have been rising steadily since about 1950.

19. Comparatively speaking, the United States uses energy fuels and minerals ________.

So efficiently that only domestic coal, petroleum, and minerals are utilized

Less efficiently than other technologically advanced countries

Very efficiently, so consumption per person is below that in less industrialized countries likeBrazil and Mexico

About equally as efficient as other technologically advanced countries

20. Sandstone is a much more common reservoir rock for petroleum than shale because ________.

Shale is more porous so the oil tends to leak out over time

Sandstone is more abundant than shale

Shales, especially black shales, are much richer in primary organic matter than are sandstones

21. Chemical decomposition of ________ produces acidic soil waters that can cause secondary enrichment in copper and in other ore deposits.

Calcite

Quartz

Bauxite

Pyrite

22. Which one of the following is a false statement concerning the Bingham Canyon mine?

Is the largest, open-pit copper mine in North America

Located in Utah near Salt Lake City

Most of the mineralized rock is part of an igneous rock pluton

The ore contains, on average, more than three percent by weight of copper

23. Cap rock and reservoir strata refer to accumulations of ________.

Sedimentary iron ore

Petroleum

Oil shale

Bedded rock salt

24. Detrital grains of ________ are not likely to be concentrated in placer deposits.

Native gold

Diamond

Corundum

Gypsum

25. ________ coal is typically found only in association with tightly folded strata.

Anthracite

Peat

Lignite

Bituminous

26. The first, large-scale, commercial, geothermal, electrical power-generation facility in the United States was brought into production at ________.

Yellowstone National Park in 1925

Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1945

The Geysers, northern California in 1960

Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1970

27. Coal and petroleum are considered to be fossil fuels because ________.

Their energy content was derived from ancient sunlight

Carbon dioxide, released when they burn, contributes to the greenhouse effect

Their oxygen and nitrogen content were derived from the ancient atmosphere

Coal beds and petroleum reservoir rocks contain abundant fossils

28. ________, a rock-forming silicate mineral used as an insulator in electrical equipment, occurs as large crystals with quartz and feldspars in pegmatites.

Olivine

Hornblende

Graphite

Muscovite

29. The world's largest plant for generating electricity from tides is ________.

Along the coast of California just north of San Francisco

In the Rance River estuary, Brittany, along the Atlantic coast of France

Along the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil

In the Netherlands along the Rhine River delta

30. The world's largest, commercially developed tar sand deposit is ________.

Near Lake Athabasca in central Canada

In northern Brunei, Island of Borneo

In southern Iraq, near Basra

In northwestern Colorado, U.S.

31. ________ is the mineral source of phosphorous in phosphate fertilizers.

Apatite

Garnet

Phosphorite

Kaolinite

32. The ________ formation, rich in oil shale strata, was deposited in early Tertiary lakes that once covered parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

Red Lake

White Prairie

Blue Mountain

Green River

33. Copper and copper-zinc sulfide deposits formed around ancient, seafloor, hot spring vents would be most likely to be found in ________.

An accretionary wedge complex

An exotic, oedipus complex

A far traveled, cratonic complex

An ophiolite complex

34. Which one of the following best describes how talc deposits might originate geologically?

Reaction of olivine and pyroxene with hydrothermal fluids during regional metamorphism

Reaction of hydrothermal fluids with quartz-rich sandstones during contact metamorphism

Dehydration of gypsum and limestone during contact metamorphism

High pressure metamorphism associated with impact of an asteroid or large meteorite

35. Graphite deposits typically form geologically ________.

As deposits around submarine, hot spring vents

By decomposition of humus and soil gases during intense, tropical weathering

As hydrothermal vein deposits in limestone around a granitic batholith

By regional metamorphism of organic-rich, black shales

36. Vein- or fissure-filling deposits of lead and zinc minerals would be more common in ________.

Impactites and shattered rock of a meteorite impact zone

Rocks of a contact-metamorphic zone formed around a shallow, granite pluton

Rocks formed in a deep, high-grade, regional-metamorphic zone

Rhyolitic lava flows interbedded with pyroclastics