RSC2601 FINAL PAPER UPDATED
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS BUNDLED REVIEW GUIDE
●● Energy
Answer: the capacity to do work
●● Power
Answer: rate at which work is done
●● Newton
Answer: force needed to accelerate 1kg 1 meter per second
●● Joule
Answer: amount of work done when a force of 1 newton is exerted over
1 meter
●● Watt
Answer: one joule per second
●● Black Lung Disease
Answer: lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
, ●● Mountaintop Removal
Answer: a mining technique where entire tops of mountains are removed
with explosives
●● Flex-Fuel Boilers
Answer: coal can be mixed with biomass fuels to produce energy with
less carbon dioxide emissions
●● Hydraulic Fracturing
Answer: the forcing open of fissures in rocks by introducing liquid at
high pressure to extract oil/gas
●● Tar Sands
Answer: rock or sand layers that contain oil
●● Oil Shale
Answer: sedimentary rock rich in kerogen
●● Methane Hydrate
Answer: individual molecules of natural gas trapped in a crystalline
matrix of ice
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS BUNDLED REVIEW GUIDE
●● Energy
Answer: the capacity to do work
●● Power
Answer: rate at which work is done
●● Newton
Answer: force needed to accelerate 1kg 1 meter per second
●● Joule
Answer: amount of work done when a force of 1 newton is exerted over
1 meter
●● Watt
Answer: one joule per second
●● Black Lung Disease
Answer: lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
, ●● Mountaintop Removal
Answer: a mining technique where entire tops of mountains are removed
with explosives
●● Flex-Fuel Boilers
Answer: coal can be mixed with biomass fuels to produce energy with
less carbon dioxide emissions
●● Hydraulic Fracturing
Answer: the forcing open of fissures in rocks by introducing liquid at
high pressure to extract oil/gas
●● Tar Sands
Answer: rock or sand layers that contain oil
●● Oil Shale
Answer: sedimentary rock rich in kerogen
●● Methane Hydrate
Answer: individual molecules of natural gas trapped in a crystalline
matrix of ice