Dimensional Analysis
This is the amount of watts in a single kilowatt.
What is 1,000?
Which of the three fossil fuels produces the least pollution in the form of particulate matter?
What is Natural Gas?
What is non-renewable?
This country has the largest proven coal reserves.
What is the United States?
This is the energy consumed in (kWh) when using 6kW for 4 hours?
What is 24 kWh?
The most used fossil fuel in the world.
What is petroleum (oil)?
This is the name of the metal used as an energy resource for nuclear reactors.
What is uranium-235?
Name the top 3 renewable sources of energy in California.
What is solar, wind, and hydropower?
This is an example of a greenhouse gas.
What is methane (CH4)? What is carbon dioxide (CO2)? Will also accept CFCs or water vapor.
This is the equation for percent change.
What is [ ( new value - old value ) / old value ] x 100 = % change ?
This is the type of coal that is considered the highest grade coal because it is nearly pure carbon. In many cases it is used for domestic heating.
What is Anthracite coal?
True or False: Thermal energy is converted into mechanical energy and then to electrical energy, just like in coal-burning power plants.
What is the term that can differentiate biofuels and biomass within this category?
What are deletable resources?
Which of the following is an environmental problem associated with abandoned coal mines?
What is acid mine drainage?
Ms.Burnett's house is roughly 1,245 ft2. This home requires 23 BTU / 1 ft2 hour of power for heating in the colder months. One cubic foot of natural gas provides about 1,000 BTUs of energy. Find the volume of natural gas per hour that is required to hear the home.
What is 28.6 ft3 natural gas / hour ? (A value that is rounded differently within that range is acceptable).
Current global reserves of these 2 fossil fuel are expected to be largely exhausted within the next 60 years.
What is natural gas & oil?
Name a drawback to using biofuels such as ethanol, as a fuel source.
What is the high energy investment in producing and processing the crops needed for ethanol production ?
Describe an environmental problem associated with hydrologic fracturing, or fracking.
What is fracking fluids can escape and contaminate surface water and groundwater ?
Some of you watch Tik Tok for 5 hours a day . Let's say this requires 9 watts of electricity. The cost of electricity is $0.35 per kilowatt-hour (kWh). Find the yearly cost of watching Tik Tok.
These are the steps of burning natural gas like methane to converting into electricity.
What is burn the gas --> heat water --> create steam --> turn a turbine --> run a generator --> produce electricity?
Why is the ability to do work in nuclear reactions is much greater than from the burning of fossil fuels?
The extremely high energy density of uranium-235.
This is a type of renewable energy source that is NOT derived directly or indirectly from solar energy.
What is geothermal energy?
The separation of certain components of crude oil is generally done so by utilizing the difference of this.
What is boiling point?