Renewable Energy
This energy source comes directly from the Sun.
What is solar energy?
Turning off lights when leaving a room saves this.
What is electricity?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
I help clean the air and provide oxygen.
What is a tree?
Which animal is famous for building dams?
What is a beaver?
These giant spinning machines generate electricity from moving air.
What are wind turbines?
This appliance usually uses more energy: refrigerator or phone charger?
What is a refrigerator?
The process plants use to make food from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
I travel without using gasoline and help reduce emissions.
What is a bicycle?
What force keeps you from floating off into space during math class?
What is gravity?
This renewable energy source uses moving water.
What is hydroelectric power?
A TV changes electrical energy into these two forms.
What are light and sound?
These gases help trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
What is insulation?
This form of energy is stored in a stretched rubber band that is waiting to surprise someone.
What is potential or elastic energy?
This energy comes from heat inside Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
An electric car stores energy using this thing.
What is a battery?
Cutting down large areas of forest is called this.
What is deforestation?
What is a bee?
This simple machine would be useful if you wanted to move a giant boulder instead of showing off how strong you are.
What is a lever?
This energy uses matter from dead organisms.
What is biomass?
Name one way a family could reduce energy use at home.
Many answers accepted (by Ms. Issa)
Name two things that can reduce pollution.
What is Recycling, public transportation, renewable energy, planting trees, etc.
What is an LED bulb?
This scientist became famous for developing the theory of relativity, despite never posting about it on social media.
Who is Ms. Issa? (jk Who is Albert Einstein?)