History of Energy in US
Fossil Fuels
Renewable sources of energy
Nuclear Energy
Grab bag energy
100
Type of energy source used in the colonial times
What is wood?
100
The most widely used fossil fuel today
What is oil?
100
Type of energy that uses panels
What is solar energy?
100
Two types of nuclear energy
What is fusion and fission?
100
A secondary energy source
What is electricity
200
The reason the energy source had to be changed in the colonial times
What is wood running out around civilized areas?
200
Powers 50-60 of the United States energy
What is coal?
200
Always needs wind to produce energy
What is the major drawback of wind energy?
200
The two elements used to produce nuclear energy
What is uranium and plutonium?
200
Solar panels are covered with this
What is glass?
300
The energy source used in the industrial revolution to power large ships, trains, transportation, manufacturing, and for heating and cooking.
What is coal?
300
Where oil is turned into various products
What is a refinery?
300
The mechanism water goes through to produce electricity
What is a turbine?
300
3 mile island in Pennsylvania in 1979
What is the first big nuclear scare?
300
Tubes inside solar panels are filled with this
What is water?
400
When the attitude changed to being against oil and coal
What is the 1960's
400
Solid waste that is not completely burned during oil refining
What is waste water sludge?
400
Two types of active solar energy
What is solar collector panels and photovoltaic panels?
400
Pieces in a nuclear reactor that keep a reaction under control
What is a control rod?
400
Location of largest nuclear mishap to date
What is Chernobyl, Russia?
500
When the main source of energy became oil
What is post World War I
500
Nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and mercury compounds
What are some air emissions produces through the process of burning fossil fuel (oil)
500
A byproduct of passive solar energy
What is heat?
500
The process of breaking apart a big atom to create energy
What is fission?
500
Made small forms of transportation possible by using fossil fuel
What is an internal combustion engine
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