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Understanding Natural Gas: A Quiz on Its Properties and Uses

This quiz tests your knowledge about natural gas, its production, uses, and the biological processes involved in methane generation.

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1 Natural gas can be used to produce ________, with one common method being the hydrogen reformer.

2 Methanogenic archaea are responsible for all biological sources of methane, some in symbiotic relationships with other life forms, including ________, ruminants, and cultivated crops.

3 ________ is usually produced using agricultural waste materials, such as otherwise unusable parts of plants and manure.

4 Gasoline/petrol vehicles converted to run on natural gas suffer because of the low ________ of their engines, resulting in a cropping of delivered power while running on natural gas (10%-15%).

5 Natural gas is a major source of ________ through the use of gas turbines and steam turbines.

6 It is found associated with other fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, ________, and landfills.

7 Russia is also the world's largest natural gas producer, through the ________ company.

8 ________

9 Home or other building heating may include boilers, ________, and water heaters.

10 The LNG and LPG is transported by specialized transport ships, as the gas is liquified at ________ temperatures.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964.
  • numerous specimens of dinosaurs have been excavated from the Dashanpu Formation, first discovered by a natural gas company that found the formation's first dinosaur, Gasosaurus.
  • the Texas industrialist Jack Crichton was involved in the mining of gold, silver, nickel, copper, and zinc as well as the production of oil and natural gas.
  • the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas-producing oil field in California, and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911.
  • the supply of natural gas and electricity in New Orleans, Louisiana ceased as a result of the General Strike of 1892, plunging the city into darkness for four nights.
  • modern experts estimate that around 90% of the natural gas discovered in the Indiana Gas Boom was wasted in flambeau displays.
  • during the Great Depression, attorney George C. Butte devised regulations for the conservation of Texas petroleum and natural gas.
  • oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison.
  • New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases.
  • Elwood Haynes invented stellite, built one of the first gasoline driven automobiles, and made advances in natural gas technology that later resulted in refrigeration.
  • a separatist group refuses to allow the exploitation of crude oil and natural gas reserves in the Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia.
  • before the 2004 Russia–Belarus gas dispute, Gazprom sold natural gas to Belarus at Russian domestic prices.
  • natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars.
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