Energy!
Natural Resources!
Natural Gas
Electricity
Electricity and Wrap up!
100
Is using less energy to do the same job.
What is energy efficiency?
100
A renewable resource of organic material made from pants and animals.
What is biomass?
100
The main heating source in more than half of U.S. homes.
What is natural gas?
100
the flow of electric power.
What is electricity or electric energy?
100
Uses the most energy of any appliance in your home.
What is the refrigerator?
200
Energy created when rubbing a coin between your hands.
What is thermal energy?
200
Can be reproduced or is capable of being replenished by a natural process.
What is a renewable resource?
200
Smells like rotten eggs and is added to natural gas in order to help detect a leak.
What is mercaptan?
200
electric force or measure of electric pressure.
What is voltage?
200
The name given to electricity used by a device when it's not doing its main job and is off or in standby mode.
What is phantom load?
300
It is carried through poles and wires to your home.
What is electric energy?
300
The system through which the water on the earth recycles itself.
What is hydrologic cycle?
300
The cleanest nonrenewable fuel
What is natural gas?
300
the basic unit of measurement of power.
What is the watt (W)?
300
A light bulb that can reduce lighting energy used by 50% to 75%!
What is a Compact Fluorescent Lamp?
400
Energy stored in something physical
What is potential energy?
400
A combustible material created between the Earth's surface over millions of years from remains of plants and animals.
What is fossil fuel?
400
Colorless, odorless, and lighter than air. It gives off light and and heat when it burns but does not create smoke.
What is methane?
400
how much power you require at a single point in time.
What is demand?
400
when people create their own power and reduce the demand on the local electrical power grid.
What is distributed generation?
500
Energy an object possesses to keep it moving
What is kinetic energy?
500
The percentage of the Earth's water that can be used by humans.
What is 1%?
500
Natural gas is taken here to be refined
What is a processing plant?
500
when the demand for energy is at its highest.
What is on-peak time?
500
the transfer of an electic load from on-peak time to off-peak time.
What is load shifting?
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