Coal 1 Jeopardy Template

EASY	A LITTLE LESS EASY	ITS GETTING TOUGHER	KIND OF HARD	VERY HARD
100 What is Coal? What is a carbon filled rock?	100 What is the color of Peat? What is the color brown?	100 Which state has the largest coal reserves? What state is Pennsylvania?	100 How is coal mined? What is strip mining, reclamation, or underground mining?	100 What percentage of the total net electricity generated in America each day is represented by coal? What is 56 % ?
200 What are three of the four major types of coal? What is Lignite, Bituminous and Anthracite?	200 What are some used for coal? What is electricity generation, home heating or steel production?	200 What is underground mining? What happens when coal is so deep under the surface that tunnels have to be dug to extract it?	200 What is an economic disadvantage of using coal as an energy source? What is an expensive resource?	200 What two transportation methods move nearly 2/3 of all U.S. coal shipments? What are railroads and barges (ships)?
300 What is the hardest type of coal? What is Anthracite?	300 What percentage of carbon is found in coal? What is 90% of Carbon?	300 What is a miner's canary? What is taking a bird into mines to detect for poisonous gasses?	300 What is Peat? What is the first stage of coal formation?	300 What is the half life of coal? What is 5730 years?
400 Where is coal found? Where is every continent including Antarctica?	400 What gasses are released into the atmosphere by coal? What are CO2 and sulfur particles?	400 What is continuous mining? What is using a huge machine to scrape coal from a seam?	400 What climate conditions are needed for coal to form? What happens when large amounts of plant matter fall into a wet, swampy environment?	400 What is conventional mining? What is using explosives to break up a coal seam?
500 What is black lung? What happens when miners breath in too much coal and dust?	500 What are some environmental disadvantages of coal? What is producing acid mine drainage, acid rain or climate change?	500 Why is coal used to generate energy? What is a reliable resource?	500 Why did oil and natural gas gain popularity over coal after the 1930s? What happens when coal becomes harder and harder to find?	500 Which Northwestern state has the largest coal reserves? Where is Montana?

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