Your Questions About Green Living

The Expert answers:

1. D(?)
2. B volcano.
3.C energy from flowing water.
4. A a mineral
5. B precipitation.

The Expert answers:

I’m sorry, I’m not trying to sound rude or anything but this site really wasn’t created for people to cheat.
You’re just hurting yourself by doing so…!
If you have all of that to answer by tomorrow I’d get busy!!
Good luck!!!!

The Expert answers:

1) renewable resources will run out eventually. Either because no one can afford it or it’s out of date or everyone wants it but there’s not enough left to meet the demand so no one can afford it.
2)When time runs out that’s you lot,save for the future as rainy days happen all too often.
3+4) When a resource has run out,try another one until it runs out then, try another one hoping that the first resource will come back but never happens so try alternate resource which runs out and can’t afford to try another. So wish you hadn’t wasted the first resource.
Like trying to save money with a deficit so give up,might as well.

The Expert answers:

The key term is “renewable resources”. This has a lot to do with energy conservation, global warming and recycling.

A resource is some material used to manufacture something. In terms of automobiles, it can be the Iron ore used to make the steel or the petroleum which is refined to make the fuel.

A renewable resource can be recycled after it is used. This is why fossil fuels are not renewable. After they burn, there is no way to turn them back into coal or petroleum. The scrap iron recovered from an old car is renewable. It can be refined just like the Iron ore was and used to make new steel and ultimately new cars.

Obviously the ability to renew a resource becomes very important if the resource itself is limited. If it is non-renewable there will be none of it available after the last of it is used. This is not the case with renewable resources, which can be reused indefinitely.

Petroleum is a non renewable resource which will be completely gone in around 50 years. The petroleum formed when marine algae were buried and compressed over millions of years. The natural vegetable oils they produced were slowly turned into petroleum. Fossil fuels which require 200 million years to make are not renewable. However, petroleum in the future might come again from algae, although the process which turns them into petroleum will be speeded up enormously. At present, bio diesel fuels can replace the fossil fuel in diesel engines. The first of these engines actually ran on peanut oil. Today they run on kerosene from petroleum but can be made to run on waste grease and old cooking oil. The ecological advantages to this is that the CO2 generated from burning renewable fuels is recycled by plants into more fuel. This means there is no net increase in the amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. This gas appears to be causing global warming as the levels of CO2 increase.

CO2 has always been a natural part of the environment, but all the extra gas comes either from coal fired electricity generation or automobile exhaust. In the case of electricity, it can be produced in many other ways, the least polluting being solar energy. Nuclear energy does not produce CO2 either, but nuclear fuel is the most non renewable fuel of all. All the Uranium on earth is the result of a supernova explosion over 5 billion years ago, long before our solar system existed.

Mining is the process of obtaining resources from below the surface of the earth. The two types are traditional mines and open pit mines. Traditional mines are tunnels cut into solid rock which contains the resource. The rock is hauled out of the mine to be processed. An open pit mine is just a very large, shallow pit dug into the ground. Most precious metals and gemstones come from traditional mines because the resource is unevenly distrubuted and exists in very narrow deposits. Coal mines are also often of this design because soal ocurrs in shallow layers between layers of rock. Open pit mines take advantage of widely dispersed mineral deposits. Iron ore is the best example. The resource is not concentrated in any one particular place.

The resources which come from mining are all the metals used in the world and all the coal. Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel and even at the present rate of consumption, it will not be exhausted for at least another 200 years. The most renewable metal is Aluminum. Nearly all of it is recycled because it atkes enormous amounts of electricity to refine the aluminum ore. It is far cheaper to simply re use Aluminum which is already refined.

Hope this helps. Any teacher who yells at their studfents is a total jerk and an incompetant disgrace to the educational system. You can tell them Roger the chemist says so.

The Expert answers:

1. The American Petroleum Institute, in its Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (MPMS), defines it as “a substance, generally liquid, occurring naturally in the earth and composed mainly of mixtures of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen with or without other nonmetallic elements such as sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.”
2. Petroleum and natural gas are considered non-renewable resources, as they do not naturally re-form at a rate that makes the way we use them sustainable.
3.Petroleum is found in porous rock formations in the upper strata of some areas of the Earth’s crust. It consists of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, mostly alkanes, but may vary greatly in appearance and composition.
4.Since petroleum is a non-renewable resource, many people are worried about peak oil and eventual depletion in the near future. Due to its continual demand and consequent value, oil has been dubbed black gold.
5. Dunno
6. Largest share of oil products is used as energy carriers: various grades of fuel oil and gasoline. Refineries also produce other chemicals, some of which are used in chemical processes to produce plastics and other useful materials.
7. Dunno
8. High prices of petroleum can impact the household budget greatly because if you are used to spending so much on petroleum every week and then the price doubles, it will have a ripple effect on the other necessities. One way to manage it is to budget only a certain amount for petroleum and start using public transport, carpooling, cycling or walking. Good for the budget, and better on the environment.
9. Drilling for the oil, mudlogger (A mudlogger in the modern oil field is tasked primarily with gathering data and collecting samples during the drilling of a well. They then organize this information in the form of a graphic log, showing the data charted on a graphic representation of the wellbore), roughneck (roughneck is one of several roles in the hierarchy on an oil rig. A roughneck’s duties could include anything involved with the connecting and “tripping” of pipe down the well bore.), Derrickhand (Responsible for the “mud,” the water + barite + bentonite + chemical mixture used in drilling oil wells, and for catching samples. Also assumes the position in the derrick, usually 60 to 90 feet off the ground, while “tripping pipe.”) worm (Worm: Usually the lowest member of the drilling crew. Works the “break-out” or “back-up” tongs on the left side of the drilling floor).
10. Petroleum is used mostly, by volume, for producing fuel oil and petrol (gasoline), both important “primary energy” sources (IEA Key World Energy Statistics). Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical products, including solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics
11. Dunno