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Coal: Formation, Use and Impacts for high school Environmental Science, on-level and AP. Covers AP Environmental Science Unit 6: Energy Resources and Consumption.
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In a waterlogged swamp, dead plant material can accumulate rather than fully decay. Which condition most directly allows this accumulation?
What is the name for the partially decayed plant material that is the immediate precursor to coal?
After peat is buried beneath sediment, which combination drives coalification over geologic time?
Which sequence correctly shows increasing coalification from buried plant material?
The chemical energy in coal originally came from which process in the prehistoric plants that formed it?
Why is coal classified as a nonrenewable energy resource on a human time scale?
As buried peat slowly changes into higher-rank coal, what happens to its composition?
A utility wants the coal rank with the lowest energy content per unit mass. Which rank is it?
Which coal rank generally has the highest carbon content and heating value?
Order these coal ranks from lowest to highest heating value.
If equal masses of anthracite and lignite are burned, which fuel generally releases more heat?
A coal shipment has unusually high moisture content and low heating value. Which rank is it most likely to contain?
A geologist measures a coal sample at about 90% carbon. Which rank best matches that sample?
A mine analyzes coal containing about 40% carbon. Which rank is the best match?
What happens first when a conventional coal-fired power plant converts coal energy into electricity?
When coal burns in a boiler, its chemical energy is converted most directly into which form of energy?
In a coal power plant, high-pressure steam causes electricity generation by doing what?
What is the generator's main role after the turbine shaft begins rotating?
Steam flow to a turbine stops while the generator remains connected to it. What happens to electricity production?
After steam leaves the turbine, what is a condenser designed to do in a typical coal plant?
A plant converts 35% of 800 MJ of coal energy into electricity. How much electrical energy does it produce?
Why do coal power stations use step-up transformers before sending electricity over long-distance transmission lines?
When sulfur in coal reacts with oxygen during combustion, which air pollutant is produced?
A power plant installs a limestone flue-gas scrubber to reduce emissions from high-sulfur coal. Which pollutant is it targeting?
Sulfur dioxide emitted from coal combustion contributes most directly to which regional environmental problem?
At the high temperatures inside a coal boiler, the two main gases of the combustion air react with each other. Which pollutant group forms?
In sunlight, nitrogen oxides from a coal plant can help form which pollutant near Earth's surface?
Which toxic heavy metal from coal combustion settles into lakes, is converted by bacteria into a form that builds up in fish, and causes most US fish-consumption advisories?
The noncombustible mineral fraction of coal becomes which solid residue when coal is burned?
Which device is primarily used to capture fly ash particles from coal-plant flue gas before it reaches the stack?
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