What is the name given to any volume of rock that is capable of generating and expelling commercial
quantities of oil or gas?
a. coal
b. reservoir rock
c. source rock
d. cap rock
e. aquifer
C
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What happens when the waters of a coral reef exceednormal temperatures for too long?
a. Coral polyps overheat and die.
b. Corals eject their zooxanthellae. c. Corals break down their shells. d. Corals increase their zooxanthellae. e. Corals poison their zooxanthellae.
In most energy conversions, such as burning coal to produce heat,
A) entropy increases because of heat released in the conversion. B) entropy decreases because of heat released in the conversion. C) entropy is unchanged because heat is used to ignite the coal. D) entropy decreases because heat is used to ignite the coal.
In 1948 in Donora, Pennsylvania, the routine release of toxins into the air became a deadly fog because of
A) a chemical spill in the nearby Monongahela River. B) greatly increased activity of the nearby industries. C) a thermal inversion and stagnant weather conditions. D) the failure of the chemical scrubbing systems on smokestacks.
Outside of Australia and New Zealand, the majority of the Pacific Island population is of _____ origin
a. Micronesian b. European c. Asian d. aboriginal e. indigenous