Fossil Fuels
This fossil fuel is mined and used to burn in order to produce heat. It is a dark combustible material.
What is coal?
This type of energy comes from our sun.
What is solar energy?
This is the percentage of input work that is converted to output work.
What is efficiency?
Compounds made from oil that are used to make plastics, paints, medicines, and cosmetics.
What are Petrochemicals?
These are the TEKS games Mrs. Barron has started assigning at the beginning of this semester.
What is Legends of Learning?
This is an organic compound that contains ONLY carbon and hydrogen atoms.
What is a hydrocarbon?
Electricity is produced by the kinetic energy of water flowing over a waterfall or dam.
What is hydroelectric power?
This is the material that traps air to help block heat transfer between the air inside and outside of a building?
What is insulation?
These take a long time to form and are being used up more rapidly than they are formed.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This is Mrs. Barron's Legends of Learning name.
Who is Professor Red Scorpion?
This is a liquid fossil fuel; oil is an example.
What is petroleum?
This is a mixture of gasoline and alcohol.
What is gasohol?
This is the practice of reducing energy usage.
What is energy conservation?
These forms of energy are constantly being given off by the sun?
What are light and heat?
This source of energy involves splitting atoms to generate electrical energy.
What is nuclear power?
This is a factory where crude oil is heated and separated into fuels and other products.
What is a refinery?
This is the splitting of an atom’s nucleus into two smaller nuclei and neutrons, releasing a large quantity of energy.
What is nuclear fission?
This is heat energy from within the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
These biomass fuels are considered to be renewable.
What are crops?
A power plant generates electrical energy from steam. The steam is generated using energy from the sun. This is type of renewable energy the system uses.
What is solar energy?
This is a substance that provides energy as the result of a chemical change.
What is fuel?
These include sunlight, water, wind, nuclear power, biomass fuels, geothermal energy, and hydrogen.
What are renewable resources?
This material is a great source as insulation to keep your home warm. Hint: Pigs use this to build this in the wild. Hint: Home builders use this in the walls of some new homes. This is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has a number of different uses, including fuel, livestock bedding and fodder, thatching and basket making.
What is straw?
This is how human energy use has changed over time. From burning this substance to that substance.
What is wood to fossil fuels?
Reducing energy use by turning the television and lights off when leaving a room is a simple part of which of this conservation program.
What is energy conservation?