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Fracking involves the ______drilling to extract oil and natural gas from the rock.

Select one:

a. vertical

b. lateral

c. horizontal

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Higher-priced fossil fuels usually _____ overall global economic activity, all else being equal.

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a. has no effect on

b. mean less

c. mean more

d. impacts the currency exchange rate

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Hydraulic fracturing risks include

Select one or more:

a. degrading air quality

b. making oil more combustible

c. making gas less combustible

d. causing earthquakes

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Geologists believe that once about half the oil in the ground has been exhausted, extraction becomes so difficult and expensive that prices will ____

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a. remain high

b. double every 3 years

c. remain low

d. double every 2 years

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According to the author of the textbook: utilization of fuels produces common air pollutants that cause

Select one:

a. higher interest rates

b. lower interest rates

c. smog and endanger human health

d. emf interference

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1.c) Horizontal drilling

In  Horizontal drilling , drilling extends parallel with the rock layer containing the oil and natural gases reduces surface disruptions.

7.c.) mean more

Higher-priced fossil fuels have strong positive economic benefit and also benifits the consumers and industrial sectors.

8.a.) degrading air quality

Hydraulic fracturing cause emission of methane gas that escapes from wells which cause air pollution and industrial emissions from equipment used in the extraction process.

9.d) double every year

Rise in price for the minimum use of fossil fuels and prices might rise until we will reach a situation where fossil fuels no longer becomes worthwhile for the majority of people to use oil or gas as fuel

10.c)smog and endanger human health

air pollution and ground water contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing risk the human health . Also, the extraction workers risk for developing pulmonary diseases, including lung cancer and silicosis, and radiation exposure.