Exam 22: Resources

A _____ is the term used to describe the portion of a resource that has been discovered or inferred with some degree of certainty and can be extracted for a profit.

Salt domes account for most of the petroleum reserves in the U.S. midcontinent.

The origin of petroleum is very similar to that of coal.

Coalbed methane is never going to be a significant source of natural gas.

Economic deposits of petroleum require _____.

Hydrothermal fluids are the most important source of metallic ore deposits.

The world's largest geothermal power plant is at ____.

In placer deposits, streams concentrate heavy mineral into ores.

There are two basic forms of energy categories, ____ energy is stored energy.

Bituminous coal is the highest "grade" or "rank" of coal.

Counting tar sands, _______ has the second largest oil reserves in the world.

Geological resources sustain life, and the most fundamental of these resources are _____.

The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

The petroleum window is the depth between ______ to ______ feet through which sapropel must pass to transform into oil.

A resource is any geologic material that has yet to be discovered.

Most copper ores are ___.

When a drill hole first penetrates an oil reservoir the pent up gases may drive the petroleum to the surface.

The ratio of the amount of energy extracted versus the amount of energy put into the extraction process of a resource can be initialized as ____.

The more carbon, the more combustible (economically desirable) the coal.

Phosphate is produced from _____.