Melissa lives in a town called Greendale. She discovers that when she lights a match and holds it near her kitchen faucet, the little flame grows into a larger fire. Melissa is surprised because she thought the water would extinguish the flame rather than ignite it further. Her mother tells her that the water might be contaminated with dissolved methane, a primary component in natural gas. Melissa investigates the matter and finds that cases of methane contamination started shortly after a company began fracking for natural gas in the area. Based on this information, which three statements are plausible consequences of fracking in Greendale?

Fracking contributed to methane finding its way into the residential water supply.

Fracking is always safe to use in the proximity of Greendale's water supply.

Pressure from fracking forced methane to mix with Greendale's groundwater.

Fracking in Greendale produces more freshwater than it consumes.

If fracking can con

Respuesta :

first option, third option and the last option.

The correct set of choices are as below -

1. Fracking contributed to methane finding its way into the residential water supply.

2. Pressure from fracking forced methane to mix with Greendale's groundwater.

3. And that the fracking can consumed the existing methane which caused it to seep into the groundwater.

So, the correct options that match the statements quoted above are A, C and D.

Fracking

  • Fracking refers to as a process which causes injection of liquid into the high pressure inlets or rocks with boreholes in such a way that the extraction of oil and gas is possible.

  • In the example above it is seen that the fracking was the main reason why the groundwater was flooded with the methane gas due to the acts of Melissa.

Hence, the correct options are A, C and D that such are the consequences of fracking in the city of Greendale.

Learn more about Fracking here :

https://brainly.com/question/14296919

Q&A Education