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1. What is the approximate annual cost of lighting a Nepal home with a pedal generator?

$40
$90
$120
$140

2. Which of the following sectors uses 27 percent of Canada’ s total energy energy supply?

Industrial
Residential
Transportation
Agricultural

3. Which of the following is NOT true about energy consumption in Canada?

Wood now accounts for less than 6 percent of the total energy source
Natural gas is currently the dominant source of energy
The total primary energy supply use increased by 15.3 percent between 1990 and 1997
Six industries account for about 81 percent of all energy used by industry

4. Which type of rock contains most of the world’ s oil?

Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Crystalline

5. Which of the following statements is TRUE about coal?

It is the second most abundant fossil fuel
About 50 percent of the world’ s steel is produced from coal energy
About 30 million tonnes of coal is produced annually in Canada
Coal-generated electricity supplies 20 percent of Canada’ s electrical demands

6. Biomass, which supplies about 6 percent of Canada’ s total energy, is derived mostly from the waste products of one of the following:

agricultural waste
pulp mills
some type of garbage
all of the above

7. After the oil price shocks of the 1970s, which country introduced the ProAlcohol program in 1975 to promote the use of ethanol in automobiles?

Kenya
China
Mexico
Brazil

8.Which of the following is NOT true about hydroelectricity power (HEP)?

HEP projects are very expensive to build
HEPs lifespan are greater than that of coal projects
HEP stations emit only 2 percent of greenhouse gases
Dam construction for HEP interferes with aquatic ecosystems

9. Environmentalists are concerned about the use of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) because:

they run faster than average passenger cars
they produce about 30 percent more carbon monoxide emissions than average passenger cars
they consume fuel which contains more carbon than the average passenger cars
None of the above

10. Which of the following is NOT a feature of an R-2000 home?

It has advanced heating and cooling systems
It has low levels of insulation
It makes less noise
It contains more environmentally friendly materials and equipment

11. Which of the following nations has the highest per capita energy use?

Norway
U.S.
Canada
Russia

12. It takes energy to produce energy. The usable amount of energy available from an energy source over its lifetime is called:

The net primary productivity
The net useful energy
The total available energy
The UE quotient

13. Which of the following describes fossil fuels most accurately?

They include coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium
They are usually found well below the Earth’ s crust, where pressure, heat, and the passage of time have been great enough to transform granite and kimberlite into oil and gas
They are mostly the remains of ancient forests and terrestrial and aquatic animals
They occur mainly in non-sedimentary rocks

14. Which of the following environmental problems would be lessened by burning natural gas instead of oil for energy?

Ozone depletion, providing that gas pipelines were sealed to prevent leakage
Global warming, providing gas pipelines were sealed to prevent leakage
Acid rain, providing gas pipelines were sealed to prevent leakage
None of the above

15. If you filled your car with a 100-percent ethanol fuel, you would be using:

A form of fossil fuel
A form of hydroelectric energy
Biomass fuel
A type of natural gas

16. A vehicle powered by biomass energy could theoretically run on:

Manure
Vegetable scraps
Wood
Any of the above

17. This colourless, odourless gas makes up 75 percent of the mass of the universe and has the potential to provide a virtually inexhaustible supply of pollution-free energy:

Methane
Sulphur dioxide
Oxygen
Hydrogen

18. Why does solar power provide only about 0.5 percent of Canada’ s energy needs (1994 data)?

Once the costs of environmental degradation are factored in, solar power is still much more expensive than oil
Canada has not given tax breaks or other incentives to support the development of alternate energy sources
The low cost of oil and its stable supply mean that the need to investigate alternate energy sources is not compelling
All of the above

19. The exhaust produced by Chicago’ s environmentally friendly buses, which are powered by fuel cells, is:

CO
CO₂
SO₂
H₂O and steam

20. “ OPEC” is an organization that is closely associated with which energy-related issue?

Exploitation of the Hibernia field
The North American energy crisis of the 1970s
An organization dedicated to eliminating the threat of future oil spills at sea
An organization dedicated to developing alternate forms of energy