Coal & Its Cousins
The process by which all fossil fuels produce energy.
What is combustion?
A relatively cheap and renewable, yet environmentally harmful method of heating homes in often underdeveloped countries.
What is biomass?
What is using dams to alter the flow of water and using turbines to convert the kinetic energy of the water as it's bottlenecked into electricity?
Two major drawbacks of Nuclear Energy.
What are:
- High startup costs?
- Radioactive waste?
- Risk of meltdowns?
The name of our APES teacher this year.
The name of the method for extracting oil.
What is drilling?
The process for extracting natural gas from the Earth.
What is fracking?
A use of wind energy in less developed countries.
What are windmills?
The three major nuclear accidents we need to know for the exam.
What are Three Mile Island, Fukushima, and Chernobyl?
My (Charlie's) personal favorite energy source.
What is nuclear energy?
A description of the geologic conditions required for oil to be formed and accumulated.
What is a source rock rich in organic material, a porous and permeable reservoir rock to accumulate in, & a cap rock to prevent it from escaping to the surface?
The "clean fossil fuel." (Producing the least greenhouse gas of any fossil fuels)
What is natural gas?
Two environmental disadvantages of hydroelectric power.
What are:
- Habitat flooding?
- Preventing nutrients from reaching ecosystems downstream?
- Increased water temperature inside the reservoir?
- Methane release due to anaerobic decomposition of organic matter inside the reservoir?
- Disrupting salmon migratory patterns upstream?
Two regions where geothermal energy can be harnessed.
What is:
- The Western United States?
- The Ring of Fire?
- Turkey?
- Mexico?
- Kenya?
- Italy?
- Iceland?
What is wind turbines causing cancer?
The four stages of coal formation.
What are Peat, Lignite, Bituminous, & Anthracite?
The "dirtiest renewable." (Producing the largest amount of harmful air pollutants).
What is biomass?
What is high land use?
The only nondepletable steam-turbine energy source.
What is geothermal energy?
The type of energy Godzilla is able to emit through a beam from his mouth.
What is nuclear energy?
The region on Earth with the largest tar sand petroleum deposits.
What is Alberta, Canada OR What is Venezuela?
A short description of biofuel creation.
What is fermenting crops rich in sugars into ethanol and blending it with gasoline as a fuel alternative?
The type of solar farm where many mirrors direct sunlight toward a central water tower, heating water into steam and ... you get it by this point.
What is Concentrated Solar Thermal?
The inputs of a Hydrogen Fuel Cell.
What are Hydrogen Gas & O₂?
A Lorde song that shares the name with an energy production source.