1. What are the three types of fossil fuels?

Answer: Coal, oil, natural gas

2. When peat is subjected to increased vertical pressure from accumulating sediments, what
is formed?
Answer: Lignite
3. When was the first discoveries of natural gas in Iran?
Answer: Somewhere between 6000 to 2000 BCE
4. What is the first step in refining process where crude oil is heated at extreme
temperatures to separate the different carbons?
Answer: Distillation
5. What is the fourth stage in coal formation and also called “hard coal”?
Answer: Anthracite
6. It is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most
frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.
Answer: Nuclear Power
7. It refers to a process in which neutrons released in fission produce an additional fission in
at least one further nucleus.
Answer: Chain Reaction
8. A type of nuclear reactor that has a large number of fuel rods with the coolant circulating
around them and carrying away the heat released by nuclear fission.
Answer: Heterogeneous Reactor
9. A type of nuclear reactor where the fuel and moderator are mixed.
Answer: Homogeneous Reactor
10. A component of reactor that are heat exchangers used to convert water into steam from
heat produced in a nuclear reactor core.
Answer: Steam Generators
11. True or False. All renewable energy sources rely on the sun.
Answer: False
12. It is type of renewable energy that plant or animal material used for energy production
(electricity or heat), or in various industrial processes as raw material for a range of
products.
Answer: Biomass
13. It is a type of renewable energy that originates from the original formation of the planet
and from radioactive decay of materials.
Answer: Geothermal Energy
14. Two types of solar energy.
Answer: Direct & Indirect
15. How many percent of the solar energy that reaches Earth reflected back into space?
Answer: 30%
16. It is the term for any environmental factors or situations that can cause injury, disease or
death.
Answer: Environmental Health Hazards
17. What categories of environmental health hazards are physical processes that occur
naturally in the environment?
Answer: Physical Hazards
18. What categories of environmental health hazards result from your location,
socioeconomic status, occupation, and behavioral choices?
Answer: Social Hazards
19. What categories of environmental health hazards are present when a person is exposed to
a harmful chemical at home or at work. It can be both natural and human- made
chemicals in the environment?
Answer: Chemical Hazards
20. What is the first step in principles of hazard management?
Answer: Establish the context and identify the hazard.
21. It refers to seasonal changes over a long period of time.
Answer: Climate
22. What are the different types of causes of climate change?
Answer: Natural & Artificial
23. It is any uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the
countryside or a wilderness area.
Answer: Forest Fire/ Wildfire
24. It traps the infrared heat that is trying to escape back into the space.
Answer: Greenhouse Gas
25. Give an effect of global warming.
Answer: sea level rising, global temperature rising, etc.