Nuclear
Solar
Generators
Fuels
True or False
100
Uranium is used to fuel this.
What is Nuclear power plant?
100
This is energy from sources that are constantly being formed.
What is renewable energy?
100
It converts mechanical energy, or motion, into electrical energy.
What is an electrical generator do?
100
Corn.
What is ethanol made of?
100
False, nucleus.
Nuclear power plants get their power from the energy within the neutrons of an atom.
200
The process by which collisions cause nuclei to split.
What is Nuclear fission?
200
On certain households these are facing south.
What is passive solar buildings windows?
200
By moving an electrically conductive material within a magnetic field.
How do electrical generators produce electrical energy?
200
Soy beans.
What is biodiesel made of?
200
False, passive solar heating.
Active solar heating uses the suns energy to heat something directly.
300
The explosion of an atomic bomb is an example of this.
What is an uncontrolled fission reaction?
300
This means light volts.
What is photovoltaic?
300
A wheel that changes the force of a moving gas or liquid into energy that can do work.
What is a turbine?
300
By fermenting fruit or agricultural waste.
How can ethanol be made?
300
False, turbine.
Most commercial electric generators convert the movement of a motor into electrical energy.
400
How much less air pollutants per person does France produce than the United States?
Less than 1/5.
400
These produce a very small electrical current.
What is solar cells?
400
It converts electric energy into rotational energy.
What does a motor do?
400
Gasoline and ethanol.
What is gasohol a blend of?
400
True.
Oil is a non-renewable resource.
500
This was poorly designed and safety devices were turned off to conduct an unauthorized test when the meltdown occured.
What is Chernobyl?
500
How many households do solar cells provide energy for in the developing worlds?
What is more than 1 million?
500
The magnets.
On an electric generator, what is located directly outside the rotor, but inside the wires?
500
Plant material, manure, and other organic matter.
What can be considered as a biomass fuel?
500
True.
Nuclear fusion is safer than nuclear fission.
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