Question

1. The drilling technique known as ________ is causing much controversy in drilling oil shales.
   1. Panning
   2. Scrubbing
   3. Fracking (hydraulic fracturing)
   4. Horizontal drilling

2. Which of these elements may be the fuel of the future?
   1. Oxygen
   2. Hydrogen
   3. Helium
   4. Carbon

3. Ohio has a lot of coal. What grade is it?
   1. Lignite
   2. Anthracite
   3. Bituminous
   4. Sub-bituminous

4. In Ohio, the entrances to abandoned underground mines are cleaned and barred so _______ can live in them.
   1. Ground hogs
   2. Bats
   3. Raccons
   4. Moles

5. As the solar system was forming, _________ came closest to undergoing nuclear fusion and becoming a second sun.
   1. Neptune
   2. Earth
   3. Jupiter
   4. Saturn

6. The sun, its eight planets and their moons, together with smaller objects such as asteroids and comets, form the ______
   1. Milky Way
   2. Oort Cloud
   3. Kuiper Belt
   4. Universe
   5. Solar system

7. The discovery that the universe appears to be expanding led to widely accepted cosmological theory for the formation of the universe called _________
   1. The big bang
   2. Hubble’s Law
   3. Einstein’s Law
   4. The Doppler effect

8. To measure distances in our solar system, astronomers use the __________, which is the Earth’s average distance from the Sun.
   1. Parsec
   2. Astronomical unit (AU)
   3. Light year
   4. Click
   5. Mega-kilometers

9. Our galaxy is called the _________
   1. Oort Cloud
   2. Kuiper Belt
   3. Asteriod Belt
   4. Milky Way
   5. Solar System

10. Possibly the most cataclysmic event to occur in the universe is _____________
    1. An asteroid impact
    2. A supernova
    3. Hydrogen burning

11. To the best of our knowledge, the Earth, sun and Moon are all the same age, about ______ years old.
    1. 4.6 billion
    2. 4000
    3. 500 million
    4. 1 billion
    5. 100,000

12. _______ is the largest planet in both radius and mass.
    1. Mercury
    2. Earth
    3. Jupiter
    4. Venus
    5. Mars

Answer 1

1) c. Fracking (hydraulic fracturing)

Because it has created the risk of EArthquake and groundwater contamination.

2) b. Hydrogen

Hydrogen fuels are going to be a common future fuel

3) c. Bituminous

Ohio produces mostly Bituminous coal and exports 1% coal of total USA production.

4) b. Bats

Bats live in old caves and mines to get far from human disturbances.

5) c. Jupiter

Jupiter was the second sun during the process of solar system formation because of its large size and heavy mass.

6) e. Solar system

The solar system contains all planets (8) their satellites, Sun and asteroids.

7) a. The big bang

The big bang theory is the most accepted theory worldwide for the formation of the universe.

8) b. Astronomical Unit (AU)

The Astronomical Unit (AU) is the distance between Sun and Earth

9) d. Milky way

Milky way is our Galaxy where solar system lies.

10) b. Supernova

Supernova explosion is the probable cataclysmic event on the universe.

11) a. 4.6 billion

The age of Earth and the other solar bodies have assumed to be 4.6 billion years.

12) c. Jupiter

Jupiter planet has a large size and heavy mass.