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100
sedimentary rock formed from remains of plants in swampy areas over millions of years
What is coal?
100
energy from the sun
What is solar energy?
100
fireplace
What is renewable?
100
formed from buried remains of microscopic MARINE organisms like plankton
What is oil?
100
oil and natural gas removed this way
What is drilling and pumping?
200
coal, oil, natural gas
What are fossil fuels?
200
large number of windmills
What is a wind farm?
200
a propane furnace
What is nonrenewable?
200
first stage of coal formation
What is peat?
200
layers of rock and soil are removed and piled to one side and exposed coal is removed
Who is strip mining?
300
forms under similar conditions and near oil
What is natural gas?
300
obtained from hot rocks inside earth
What is geothermal energy?
300
a car running on ethanol
What is renewable?
300
being used faster than natural Earth processes can replace them
What is nonrenewable energy?
300
tunnels are dug and pillars of rock are left to support rocks surrounding tunnels, coal is removed
What is underground mining?
400
amount of fossil fuel extracted at a profit
What is reserve?
400
burning organic materials
What is biomass energy?
400
a water wheel creating hydroelectric energy
What is renewable?
400
second stage of coal formation
What is lignite?
400
According to our book, our current coal reserve will last about this long
250 years
500
this is how nuclear energy is created
What is fission, or splitting heavier atoms?
500
biomass energy source formed during distillation
What is alcohol?
500
nuclear power plant
What is nonrenewable?
500
fuel used to form nuclear energy
What is uranium-235?
500
third state of coal formation
What is bituminous?
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