A process when sunlight gives plants the energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugars
What is Photosynthesis?
100
Geothermal energy is a _______ energy source because the water is replenished by rainfall, and the heat is continuously produced within the earth by the slow radioactive decay of particles that natuarally occur in all rocks.
What is Renewable Energy?
100
Is Energy that comes from the force of moving water
What is Hydropower Energy?
100
Nucleus Energy is that comes from the ____________ of an atom.
What is Nucleus?
100
Heating the space inside a building is what
What is Space Heating?
200
Power plants that burn garbage for energy is called
What is Waste-to-Energy Plants?
200
Scrubber
What is system to clean the air of hydrogen sulfide and other gases?
200
Water Cycle
What is the fall and movement of water in continuous natural cycle?
200
Energy released by atoms
What is Radiation?
200
The second leading home energy expsense
What is Solar Water Heating?
300
Wood, Solid Waste, Landfill Gas and Biogass, and Biofuels
What is examples of Biomass?
300
Ring of Fire
What is most of the world Geothermal activity occur in?
300
The electricity that Utilities have to generate all the time
What is Base Load Power?
300
The federal government respsonsible for licensing nuclear power plants and overseeing their construction and operation.
What is Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
300
A combination of passive and active system
What is Hybrid Solar System?
400
An acohol fuel made up by fermenting the sugars and starches found in plants and then distilling them.
What is Ethanol?
400
Most Geothermal power plants are...
What is Flash Steam Plants?
400
Has the potential to produce more energy than tidal, wave, and wind energy combine, but it is a technology for the futue.
What is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
400
Is a natural occuring radioactive element, that is very hard and heavy that is classified as a metal
What is Uranium?
400
Type of Panels that are on the roof of people homes to collect energy from the sun
What is Solar Panels?
500
Is a Fuel made by chemically reacting acohol with vegetable oil, animal fats, or grease.
What is Biodiesel?
500
Core
Outer core
Mantle
Crust
What is all layers of the Earths Interior?
500
- Alter river system and wildlife habitats
- churnning up dissolve metals that may have been deposited by industry long ago
- May increase silting, change water temperatures and lower the levels of dissolved oxygen
What is Hydropower dams enviromental problems?
500
The the cycle for mining the uranium ore
What is Uranium Fuel Cycle?
500
A home that uses mechanical equipment such as, pumps and blowers, and an outside source of energy to help heat the house when the solar energy is not enough