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This is created by the remains of plants that died long ago in and around swampy areas.
What is coal?
The most popular alternative energy source in California.
What is solar power?
The percentage of fresh water on Earth.
What is 3%?
The two ways in which water reaches a home.
What are wells and city water?
The world's fastest growing plant.
A resource that, when burned, produce less carbon emissions than other forms of nonrenewable resources.
What is natural gas?
An object that, when turned by water, air, or steam, creates energy that can then be used by humans.
What is a turbine?
When a rock has air pockets and empty spaces that can contain water, it can be called this term.
What is porous?
An event that occurs when aquifers dry up and water is scarce in an area.
What is a drought?
The way in which bees communicate.
What is dancing?
The splitting of an atom's nucleus into two nuclei that produces an immense amount of radioactive energy.
What is nuclear fission?
This type of alternative energy source is highly expensive and can disrupt bird and fish ecosystems.
What is wind energy?
Something that may form due to erosion, movement of tectonic plates, or retreating and melting glaciers.
What are lakes?
What is Africa?
An animal often mistaken for a shark for its violent nature, but is actually a dolphin.
What is an orca?
The hardest form of coal with the most energy that requires metamorphism to form.
What is anthracite?
In geothermal energy, this material can enter the geothermal fluid after it has been pumped through the ground. It is also a material found in the magma of volcanoes.
What is silica?
The three continents that contain the most major groundwater basins.
What is South America, Africa, and Europe/Asia/Russia?
The process of removing salt and minerals from water to make fresh water.
What is desalination?
The only marsupial found in North America, often lying very still when feeling fear.
What is a possum?
This event involved Iraq invading Kuwait, leading to hundreds of millions of gallons of oil being burned or spilled.
What is the Gulf War of 1991?
This type of alternative energy is very popular in Iceland due to the many heated areas under the island.
What is geothermal energy?
If all the water on Earth were collected, it would form a sphere about this long across. (Hint - should be a number)
OR solve: 43 x 20 - m = 0 ... solve for m
What is 1,380 kilometers or 860 miles?
This can lead to severe reductions or a collapse of ocean ecosystems and the resources they provide.
What is overfishing?
What is the English name of the animals in the order Anura? The animal is deemed a "groda" in Swedish, "rana" in Italian, and "grenouille" in French. (hint = Miss Lopez has a stuffed version of this animal)
What is a frog?