Renewable Energy
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?
This country is credited for inventing fireworks.
What is . . .
China?
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?
or
What is climate change?
According to Phineas and Ferb, this is how many days of summer vacation there are.
What is . . .
104?
Geothermal wells are drilled to use heat from this source.
What is underground or earth's internal heat?
Burning fossil fuels releases this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide (or CO2)?
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 type of natural disaster in places like California, Colorado, and Australia.
What are forest fires?
Within +/- 5%, this is the % of a watermelon that is made of water.
What is . . .
92%?
(Acceptable answers: 87% to 97%)
While popular among many Iowans and technically renewable, harvesting this energy source adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
What is ethanol?
When fossil fuels are burned, the heat energy they release changes water into steam. The steam turns this part of an electrical generator.
What is a turbine?
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?
In 2016, leaders from across the world gathered to make a plan on how each country could voluntarily make a plan to help reduce their impact on global climate change.
What is the Paris Climate Summit
or
The Paris Climate Accord (or Agreement)
This is the most popular type of meat to grill in the United States.
What is . . .
a hot dog?
Using Hydrogen Fuel Cells to power cars will have this byproduct.
What is water?
This process refers to returning the ecosystem back to its previous condition after mining has taken place.
What is reclamation?
CHALLENGE: 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?
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)
The beach ball was invented in this US state.
What is . . .
California?