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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else does Saudi Arabia harvest from the oil fields?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Natural gases.
(c) Carbonate.
(d) Hydrogen.

2. When was Saudi Arabia established?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1932.

3. When was Hawtah Trend discovered?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1992.

4. In what year did geologists determine that the Arab D Zone has eroded away and been replaced by younger rock?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1998.

5. When the United States's oil production declined, who stepped in to become the world's leading oil producer?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Bahrain.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Iran.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Abqaiq oil field described by technical experts?

2. If Saudi Arabian production levels decline sharply, what will they affect?

3. The science of oil discovery and production is what?

4. Instead of helping to recover more oil from older fields, technology has done what?

5. If the estimates of Saudi Arabian oil reserves made in the 1970's were accurate, what is about to end?

(see the answer key)

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