Passive Solar Heating
What affects solar panel placement that changes between the Summer and Winter seasons?
What is the angle of sunlight?
The best method for explaining singular or simple data.
What is verbal communication?
How close a measurement is to the correct value of the quantity.
What is Accuracy?
Individual parts work with and affect others contained in a system. The process that attempts to model this system by examining the relationships between parts is called this.
What is Systems Theory?
A type of graph that gives a visual tour of how one element relates to another, and is often used when describing the modern power grid.
What is a flowchart?
This is the shape that the sun makes if viewed from the same place and time over a year.
What is a figure eight?
The term used when only parts of a data set are presented.
What is Cherry Picking?
The measure of the range of observed values, usually encompassing the quantity
What is Precision?
This is a system element that describes the existing quantity of a part of the system.
What is a stock?
This is the most widely used source of electricity, representing over 35% of energy in America
What is petroleum?
These house features allow sunlight inside, and adding more of them in cooler climates help naturally heat homes.
What are windows?
The best method for communicating large amounts of data with precision.
What are Tables?
This is used to define the precision of any particular measurement.
What are significant figures?
This is the term used to describe anything that changes the value of the stock over a period of time.
What is a flow?
An idea posed by W. Jevons that proposes as technology is developed and becomes more efficient, more people having access will negate any reduction in the demand for resources.
What is the Jevon's Paradox?
What is 25%?
These graphs visually convey how much one set of data takes up of the whole compared to its counterparts
What is a pie graph?
What are orders of magnitude?
This describes the average time a unit of stock will remain a stock before it leaves or continues through the system.
What is residence time?
The total percentage of electricity that is lost or rejected, compared to the energy services that were actually consumed.
What is 60-70%?
This is a feature often found on buildings built to let sunlight in during the winter but block sunlight in the summer.
What are overhangs?
This mechanism visually conveys the relationship between data variables, and can be a good tool for spotting outliers even without looking at numbers.
What is a scatter plot?
The number if significant figures that should be reported from the calculation 6.25m / 1.0006 seconds.
What has 3 significant figures?
This is a visual description of how stocks and flows interact with each other and find equilibrium within a system.
What is a Stock Flow Diagram?
Bringing it all together: the name of a model that attempts to simplify the system of Earth's climate down to a digestible level. The stock includes the Earth and it's temperature and the inflow is energy absorbed from the sun.
What is the naked planet model?