Big Ideas
Miscellaneous
Nonrenewable
Renewable
Hydrocarbon Formation
100
the Law of Conservation of Energy states
What is energy can neither be created nor destroyed
100
Daily Double (make a wager and either win or lose depending on the correctness of your answer)
It's the type of energy transfer involved when objects touch one another
100
Cleanest burning fossil fuel
What is natural gas
100
Caused by uneven heating of the Earth
What is wind
100
Dead organisms turned to hydrocarbons when they are exposed to which two things (must have both)
What is heat and pressure
200
Ability to move or change matter
What is energy
200
A match head stores this type of energy
What is chemical
200
Most electricity in American homes comes from
What is coal power plants
200
This wind driven device that creates electricity
What is a wind turbine
200
definition for the term hydrocarbon
What is any molecule containing hydrogen and carbon
300
Energy that could do work
What is potential
300
Most fuels provide energy in the form of
What is heat
300
A properly operating nuclear power plant would release only this into the air
What is steam
300
Name one reason that solar power hasn't totally dominated energy production in the U.S.
What is cost, efficiency, or intermittent sunshine
300
Any material that stores energy and releases it in a chemical change
What is a fuel
400
Any material that stores energy and releases it in a chemical change
What is fuel
400
The most widely used form of renewable energy in the world
What is water
400
Fuel rods in nuclear power plants are made from this radioactive material
What is Uranium
400
Fuel made from plants
What is Biomass or Biofuel
400
Energy of moving matter
What is kinetic
500
Transfer of energy through a liquid by currents
What is convection
500
It's how the sun's energy reaches us from so far away
What is radiation
500
most coal contains this element responsible for acid rain
What is sulfur
500
Solar power plants use mirrors called _______ to focus sunlight
What is a heliostat.
500
Type of coal formed under extreme heat and pressure
What is anthracite
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