True or false, in Louisiana the Environmental Protection Agency gets 90% of its funding from oil companies.
True
100
Vegetable oils used instead of gasoline.
What is biodiesel.
200
The conversion of sunlight into electricy.
What is Solar Power
200
True or false, nuclear energy causes radioactive waste.
True
200
Birth defects, development problems, cancer, and lots more are results of what?
Things that are happening to people in Louisiana near the oil plants.
200
Louisiana makes more _________ than any other state.
What is oil
300
This is produced by controlled nuclear reactions. Plants currently use nuclear fission reactions to heat water to produce steam, which is used to generate electricity.
What is Nuclear Power
300
True or false, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, and Hydro power are all non-renewable resources.
False
300
This gas is emitted in a number of ways. It is emitted naturally through the carbon cycle and through human activities like the burning of fossil fuels. It is the major greenhouse gas contributing to global warming.
What is Carbon Dioxide, or CO2
300
Plastics, chlorine, ammonia, nitrates fertilizers, and PVC are all made from this.
What is oil
400
The production of electrical power with the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water.
What is Hydroelectric Power
400
Buses in Sweden are using this clean energy source instead of gasoline or electricity.
What is Hydrogen Power
400
Fossil fuels (oil, gasoline, propane, etc.), coal, etc.
What are non-renewable resources?
400
The accumulation of substances, such as pesticides, or other organic chemicals in an organism.
What is bioaccumulation
500
Uses the gas produced at solid waste landfills and farm waste to generate electricity.
What is Methane Power
500
These panels absorb energy from our atmosphere.
What are Solar Panels
500
This part of our atmosphere is 9.7 million square miles, about the size of North America. It is letting in harmful rays of the sun that are melting ice and killing polar bears.
What is the Ozone hole over North America
500
Dumping on land, dumping in water, or pumping into the air.
How have oil companies been disposing of their waste?