energy
Power harvested from sunlight often through photovoltaic panels and converted into electricity
what is solar power
Chemical equation for water
What is H2O
Where were the first modern Olympics held?
What is Athens, Greece?
Michael Phelps
What is swimming
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption.
What are fossil fuels. (Oil, coal, natural gas)
Name two ways you can help conserve water
What is take shorter showers, turn water off while brushing teeth, limit amount of water used for watering lawns and gardens.
True or false: Olympic gold medals were made of real gold about 100 years ago.
True! But about 100 years ago they started making them out of silver with gold plating.
Daniel Cormier
What is UFC/MMA
This energy source became even more controversial after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. Power is produced by splitting uranium atoms through a process called fission that produces heat which creates steam used to power a turbine.
What is nuclear power.
The continuous circulation of water as it evaporates from the land and sea, enters the atmosphere, condenses and precipitates to the earth's surface, then moves underground by infiltration.
What is the water cycle.
In which city did the 2002 Winter Olympics take place?
The 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City, Utah
Willie Snead
What is Football
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover Dam
An area of land where any groundwater underneath of it or precipitation that falls on it drains into one river, basin, or sea.
What is a watershed
Tokyo is the biggest summer Olympics yet, with 5 more sports added since Rio 2016. How many different sports competitions are there this year? (closest number wins if no one knows)
33
Mike Trout
What is baseball
The 4th largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita.
What is China
Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the establishment of a superfund, or CERCLA.
What is the Clean Water Act
How old is the youngest Olympic gold medalist in modern Summer Olympics?
What is 13 years old? (Marjorie Gestring, a 13-year-old American diver who won the springboard competition in 1936 )
Billie Jean King
what is tennis