Fossil Fuels
Other Sources of Energy
Energy Use and Conservation
Quiz Questions
Bonus
100

This fossil fuel is mined and used to burn in order to produce heat.  It is a dark combustible material.



What is coal?

100

This type of energy comes from our sun.

What is solar energy?

100

This is the percentage of input work that is converted to output work.

What is efficiency?

100

Compounds made from oil that are used to make plastics, paints, medicines, and cosmetics.

What are Petrochemicals?

100

These are the TEKS games Mrs. Barron has started assigning at the beginning of this semester.

What is Legends of Learning?

200

This is an organic compound that contains ONLY carbon and hydrogen atoms.

What is a hydrocarbon?

200

Electricity is produced by the kinetic energy of water flowing over a waterfall or dam.

What is hydroelectric power?

200

This is the material that traps air to help block heat transfer between the air inside and outside of a  building?

What is insulation?

200

These take a long time to form and are being used up more rapidly than they are formed.

What are nonrenewable resources?

200

This is Mrs. Barron's Legends of Learning name.

Who is Professor Red Scorpion?

300

This is a liquid fossil fuel; oil is an example.

What is petroleum?

300

This is a mixture of gasoline and alcohol.

What is gasohol?

300

This is the practice of reducing energy usage.

What is energy conservation?

300

These forms of energy are constantly being given off by the sun?

What are light and heat?

300

This source of energy involves splitting atoms to generate electrical energy.

What is nuclear power?

400

This is a factory where crude oil is heated and separated into fuels and other products.

What is a refinery?

400

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?

400

This is heat energy from within the Earth.

What is geothermal energy?

400

These biomass fuels are considered to be renewable.

What are crops?

400

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?

500

This is a substance that provides energy as the result of a chemical change.

What is fuel?

500

These include sunlight, water, wind, nuclear power, biomass fuels, geothermal energy, and hydrogen.

What are renewable resources?

500

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?

500

This is how human energy use has changed over time.  From burning this substance to that substance.




What is wood to fossil fuels?

500

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?

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