Renewable Resources
Radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies.
What is solar energy?
The use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat
What is nuclear energy?
Water flowing downstream.
What is renewable?
When we exhale we give off C02. What are three other producers of Carbon Dioxide.
What are decomposing materials, burning wood, volcanoes, vehicles, factories, any equipment that runs on fossil fuels.
A nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago; an example includes oil, coal, and natural gas.
What is a fossil fuel?
A natural resource that can be used multiple times.
What is a renewable resource?
A substance that is being used up more quickly than it can replace itself.
What is a non-renewable resource?
Coal
What is non-renewable?
During Photosynthesis, plants take in _________ and _______ and use energy from the _____to make sugar and oxygen.
Carbon dioxide, water, sun
A way to live that ensures we do not take more than we need and we replace or restore what was used.
What is sustainability?
A form of energy that harnesses the power of water in motion.
What is hydroelectric energy?
A liquid that is made up of ancient things that were once living.
What is oil/gas energy?
Aluminum
What is non-renewable resource?
Greenhouse gases......
water vapour, Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide
The use of water to provide mechanical power?
What is water energy?
Energy that is generated or produced by living or once-living organisms.
What is biomass energy?
A flammable black or brownish-black rock with a high amount of carbon and hydrocarbons.
What is coal energy?
Using wood to heat your home.
What is renewable resource?
What are two results of the greenhouse effect?
Global warming leading to melting of the ice bergs, changing weather, changing animal behaviour, ect.
What is geothermal energy most useful for?
Heating and cooling, as it depends on the internal temperatures of the planet.
Thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
A non-renewable hydrocarbon used as a source of energy for heating, cooking, and electricity generation.
What is natural gas energy?
Minerals
What is non-renewable?
When there is too much greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, it acts like a greenhouse or a blanket, trapping heat. This warms the earth.
Nuclear energy uses the mineral __________. When these atoms split apart in a reactor they produce lots of _______.
Uranium, Heat