Coal
Coal is typically known for being the ___ (superlative) form of fossil carbon.
What is dirtiest?
Widely considered the cleanest fossil carbon source.
What is natural gas?
Nuclear is widely renowned for its cleanliness due to it having _____ emissions.
What is zero?
The type of renewable energy that we must still consider how much we use in order to not deplete it.
What is potentially renewable?
This type of mining typically involves blowing the top off of a mountain.
Coal is turned into electricity through steam turning a ______.
What is a turbine?
The most common mode of extracting natural gas due to its profitability.
What is hydraulic fracturing? (fracking is also acceptable)
This type of atom is formed as a neutron is shot at an unstable material, forming a nuclear fission reaction.
What is an isotope?
What is geothermal energy?
This type of mining is what is seen typically when people "pan for gold."
What is placer mining?
The least concentrated form of coal in terms of carbon and energy density.
A recent (2010) oil spill in the US that was the largest in world history.
The country that produces 70% of its electricity from nuclear fission.
What is France?
Biomass energy often causes deaths in developing countries due to this phenomenon that occurs when employing it.
What is indoor air pollution?
This form of mining typically involves the removal of a plot of land/material that overlays valuable materials below.
What is strip mining?
The most heavily concentrated form of coal in terms of carbon and energy density.
What is anthracite?
The immensely viscous part of petroleum.
What is bitumen?
This item is typically placed in between nuclear fuel rods to absorb excess neutrons.
What is control rod?
Biofuels are typically mixed with conventional gasoline due to its low ____.
What is energy density?
The form of mining that runs the biggest risk of acid mine drainage.
What is subsurface mining?
The mining of coal typically produces these two harmful gases, which can be very dangerous for miners.
What are NOx and SOx?
The origin of oil/natural gas, the living organisms that are cooked under sediment in anaerobic conditions.
What is plankton?
This nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011 caused the entire country's nuclear program to shut down.
What is the Fukushima Daiichi Accident?
The form of a solar energy cell that transforms solar energy into electricity through concentrating the sun's heat into steam to turn a turbine.
What is concentrated solar thermal?
This term describes the natural structures that are typically removed or displaced because they overlay vast profitable mining materials below.
What is overburden?