Definitions
Substance containing stored energy that can be released through chemical reactions
What is Fuel?
These are the three types of Fossil Fuels.
What is Coal, Oil, Natural Gas?
This type of renewable energy converts sun rays directly into electrical energy.
What is Solar Energy?
This is the fossil fuel type that provides the most annual energy output in the United States per year.
What is Natural Gas?
This type of natural gas can lead to dangerous spills out into the ocean that can harm a variety of aquatic ecosystems and organisms.
What is Petroleum/Crude Oil?
Natural materials that replenish quickly and continuously
What is Renewable Resources?
This fossil fuel is believed to be formed from pressure caused by sediment layering over ancient swamp vegetation after flooding.
What is Coal?
This type of natural energy can often be found in plains, coastal areas, and valleys between mountains where it can best harness the resource that powers its turbines.
What is Wind Energy?
This fossil fuel is believed to be formed from pressure compressing and heating tiny, decayed marine organisms.
What is Petroleum?
Also: Crude oil
This is the most abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Energy rich substances (hydrocarbons) made from the preserved remains of organisms that died a very long time ago
What is Fossil Fuels?
This is the scientific name of "crude oil" extracted from the ground.
What is Petroleum?
This type of energy uses kinetic energy of downstream water to power a turbine and generate electrical energy.
What is Hydroelectric energy?
This type of fossil fuel may released Sulfur when it is burned, which is a major source of pollution.
What is Coal?
This is the most abundant element in the human body.
What is Oxygen?
•Any substance that occurs naturally in the environment that humans can use
What is Natural Resource?
This is the greenhouse gas that concerns environmentalists the most when it is released from burning all three types of fossil fuels.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?
This type of energy works by harnessing the energy released from splitting unstable isotopes via fission to move a turbine to generate electricity.
What is nuclear energy?
This is the estimated amount of energy each year in the United States that comes from combusting natural gas.
What is Community?
Machine that converts mechanical energy, or motion, into electrical energy
What is Electric Generator?
What is 16%?
This type of energy is able to power a turbine using heat from deep within the Earth's surface.
What is Geothermal energy?
This type of fossil fuel powers most engine-based machinery.
What is Petroleum?
This is the percentage of energy a tertiary consumer would receive from the original energy synthesized by the producer.
What is 0.1%?