APES Mock Exam Review Questions & Answers Rated 100% Correct

APES Mock Exam Review
Questions & Answers Rated 100%
Correct

Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas - correct answer ✔✔The majority of commercial energy in the world
comes from...



~Created when biomass is being burned or oxidized

~Renewable

~Includes wood, waste, alcohol fuels, green waste, food waste, biodegradable municipal solid
waste

~Used for cooking and keeping warm in less-developed countries where electricity is not as
widespread - correct answer ✔✔Biomass energy is...



Energy involved in any physical or chemical change is neither created nor destroyed, only
changed from one form to another - correct answer ✔✔First Law of Thermodynamics



During an energy conversions, not all of the usable energy (free energy) of the reactants are
converted to usable energy in the products; some of the usable energy is converted to unusable
energy. The amount of usable energy will decrease and the amount of unusable will increase in
each trophic level - correct answer ✔✔Second Law of Thermodynamics



~Government subsidies that keep gas prices low

~Removal of taxes from gasoline

~Raising the speed limit

~Limiting the development of public transportation - correct answer ✔✔What would make
energy use in cars increase?

,~Cleaner

~Burns completely

~Still emits CO2

~Less expensive than oil

~Flammable - correct answer ✔✔What are the advantages and disadvantages of using natural
gas over oil?



~Occurs when a building or some element of it takes advantage of natural energy characteristics
in materials and air created by exposure to the sun

~Traps the heat in the building

~Have few moving parts and no mechanical system

~Require minimal maintenance

~Similar to greenhouse effect

~Used at any time of the year

~Does not produce pollution - correct answer ✔✔Passive Solar Heating



Amount of time it takes for one-half of a radioactive material to decay - correct answer ✔✔Half-
life



Shows that in the core the nuclear energy is converted to heat energy; the heat energy is used
to make steam, and the steam turns turbines to generate electrical energy - correct answer
✔✔Diagram of a Nuclear Reactor



~Gold

~Chromium

~Antimony

~Coal

, ~Iron Ore

~Manganese

~Nickel

~Phosphates

~Tin

~Uranium

~Gem Diamonds

~Platinum

~Copper

~Vanadium

~Salt

~Natural Gas - correct answer ✔✔South Africa has reserves of...



~Negligible mineral resources

~Fish

~Virtually no energy natural resources - correct answer ✔✔Japan has...



~Coal

~Copper

~Lead

~Molybdenum

~Phosphates

~Uranium

~Bauxite

~Gold

~Iron