Renewables
You can see many examples of this type of renewable energy when driving across Iowa on Interstate 80.
What is wind energy?
This fossil fuel is abundant, cheap, and easy to use but is also the dirtiest fuel.
What is coal?
This element is used for nuclear power.
What is Uranium?
Burning fossil fuels has added a great deal more carbon dioxide to this sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
These two (2) changes are basic ways we can make our energy sources last longer.
What is (1) using less energy and (2) replacing our non-renewables with renewables?
This form of renewable energy uses moving water to turn a turbine.
What is hydropower?
This fossil fuel is abundant in the United States, burns the cleanest of the fossil fuels and is used to heat many homes in the Des Moines area.
What is Natural Gas?
On average, a nuclear power plant emits this amount of greenhouse gases.
What is zero?
More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps more heat which causes this phenomenon.
What is global warming?
There is a proposal to change "Human Induced Climate Change" to "Climate Trends" in the educational standards in this state.
What is Iowa?
Geothermal wells are drilled to use heat from this source.
What is underground or earth's internal heat?
Current estimates suggest that we might run out of this fossil fuel in 50 years.
What is petroleum?
A failed test in 1986 caused one of the world's worst nuclear disasters at this powerplant in the USSR.
What is Chernobyl?
Climate change has already caused an increase in this natural disaster in places like California and Colorado.
What are forest fires?
Total amount of greenhouse gases that are generated by an individuals actions. The average person in the US has one of 16 tons.
What is a carbon footprint?
While popular among many Iowans and technically renewable, harvesting this energy source adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
What is ethanol?
This process refers to returning the ecosystem back to it's previous condition after mining has taken place.
What is reclamation?
This type of reaction is caused by neutrons splitting the nucleus of atoms around them and in turn releasing more neutrons that split the nucleus of atoms around them etc.
What is nuclear fission or What is a chain reaction?
This human activity has reduced the environment's ability to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
What is deforestation?
This country has joined, withdrawn, rejoined, etc. from the Paris Climate agreement.
What is the United States?
Using Hydrogen Fuel Cells to power cars will have this byproduct.
What is water?
This process involves water under high pressure and is how we extract Natural Gas from the Earth.
What is fracking?
The tips of the rods designed to help control a nuclear reactor were made out of this material at Chernobyl that caused the reaction to speed up rather than slow down.
What is graphite?
Despite what the Heartland Institute would want you to believe, climate change has caused this chemical process to occur in the oceans.
What is acidification?
The Paris Climate Accords has the goal to limit the increase in average global temperatures to this amount above pre-industrial levels.
What is 1.5 degrees Celsius? (2 degrees Celsius would also be acceptable)