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What type of resource can be replaced naturally in a relatively short amount of time?
What is a renewable resource?
This greenhouse gas is released when fossil fuels are burned.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is why coal cannot be replaced as quickly as solar energy can be collected.
What is it takes millions of years to form
Coal, oil, and natural gas belong to this category of energy resources.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This form of energy is stored inside the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
List the energy transfers for a book falling off a shelf.
What is gravitational-> kinetic-> potential?
This type of energy comes from eating?
What is Chemical Energy
These are the four properties of energy
1. Energy can be transported
2. Transferred
3. Transformed
4. Stored
This is one major environmental disadvantage of burning coal and oil
What is air pollution (or greenhouse gas emissions)?
Restoring these natural environments helps protect biodiversity and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Ware are natural forests
List the energy transfers for turning on a flashlight.
What is Chemical‐> mechanical‐> chemical ‐> electrical ‐>light‐> thermal?
These are the reasons why people use non-renewable energy
What is non-renewable energy is cheap, fast, efficient.
A resource has a limited supply and is being used faster than it can be replaced. How should it be classified?
What is a nonrenewable resource?
A community wants to use only solar energy. Name two challenges it would need to address.
What are the cost of collecting and storing electricity and the lack of sunlight at night or during cloudy weather?
As fossil fuels become scarce, searching for new deposits can cause this environmental problem.
What is habitat destruction or ecosystem damage?
When pulling back a rubber band, _______ energy transfers to _________ energy.
What is kinetic, potential?
As a pendulum reaches its highest point, the energy is transferred from ______ energy to ______ energy.
What is potential to kinetic?
Identify the energy transformations that occur when moving water spins a turbine connected to a generator
What are kinetic energy to mechanical energy to electrical energy?
A cell phone demonstrates these 5 energies.
What is chemical, electrical, light, sound and thermal?
A city is deciding between solar, wind, coal, and nuclear energy. Name three factors it should consider before choosing.
What are energy availability, cost, environmental impacts, energy demand, sustainability, or waste production? (Any three.)
This fossil fuel is commonly obtained by drilling into underground reservoirs.
What is oil?
This occurs when greenhouse gases trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.