Earth Science Quiz 7

Crude oil is a mix of liquid hydrocarbons

Natural gas is hydrocarbon

Fractional Distillation can separate the compounds in Crude oil according to their boiling point

Asphalt has a lower boiling point than gasoline

Conventional Oil production in the United States continues to rise

Fracking allows engineers to break a apart oil shale rocks containing oil and steam the oil of the rocks.

Because of technology advances in fracking, the US now produces more oil than any other country

Deep Sea drilling platforms can pump up oil from beneath seafloors more than 8000 feet beneath the surface

The oil industry has learned how to prevent oil spills from occurring

Some countries, like Venezuela, have equipment in poor repair which leaks much more oil into the environment than those operating in America

Oil does not naturally seep out of the seafloor into the ocean

Although one presidential candidate previous supported outlawing Fracking, both candidates currently support Fracking

Outlawing Fracking would greatly reduce American oil production

Oil is used not only to produce gasoline, but also thousands of other products made from asphalt, tar, waxes, other chemicals and plastics made from those chemicals

America has large oil reserves under Alaska, coastal seashores, and other places where companies are not currently allowed to drill

Venezuela has nine times as much oil reserves as the United States

Ten countries have more oil reserves than the United States