Renewables
The renewable energy source or fuels made of organic matter.
What is biomass?
The most common fuel source globally.
What are fossil fuels?
The heat source in nuclear power plants.
What is radioactive decay/nuclear fission?
One negative environmental consequence of using crude oil/petroleum.
What are: habitat destruction, water depletion, water contamination, GHG emissions, oil spills?
Wind energy operations often share space with this to make use of open spaces
what is agriculture/farm field
The energy source that uses semiconductors that emit low voltage electric currents when exposed to photons.
What is solar power? OR What are photovoltaic cells?
The most common fuel sources in developing nations (more specific than biomass).
What are wood and charcoal (subsistence fuels)?
An element commonly used in nuclear power plants.
What is Uranium-235?
What is cogeneration?
1 issue with solar energy availability
What is ...
- no sunlight at night
- no sunlight with cloud cover
2 different methods of hydroelectricity.
What are (run of) rivers, tides, and dams?
2 of the 3 types of coal that form from peat.
What are lignite, bituminous, and anthracite?
The 3 locations of major nuclear accidents.
Where are Three Mile Island, Fukushima, and Chernobyl?
Products from a fossil fuel combustion reaction.
What are water and carbon dioxide?
A window facing south that uses sunlight to heat up a house, no machinery required!
what is passive solar heating
The waste product of hydrogen fuel cells.
What is H2O?
The form of energy that wind uses to spin the turbine.
What is kinetic energy?
The similarities between a nuclear power plant and a fuel combustion power plant.
The reason(s) why natural gas is considered the "cleanest" fossil fuel.
What are low air pollutants and no soot/ash?
This type of energy is mostly available at tectonic plate boundaries
What is Geothermal
1 of the 2 heat sources for geothermal energy.
What are (1) radioactive decay of elements or (2) magma/convection currents?
3 actions that can reduce energy usage.
What are: improving fuel efficiency, subsidizing electric vehicles, tax credits for renewables, increased public transportation, home improvements, lowering water usage, etc.
2 environmental costs of nuclear power.
What are: radioactive spent fuel rods, mine tailings contaminating soil or water, water depletion, thermal pollution?
2 environmental consequences of fracking.
What are: fracking fluid contamination, depletion of water sources, habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, release of methane, seismic activity?
A system included in hydroelectric dams to protect aquatic organisms moving from one side to another
What are fish ladders