Energy & Resources
What is Energy?
This is the reason water is attracted to itself.
What is cohesion?
Water behaves differently from other liquids because of this.
This natural disaster happened in the 1930's due to drought and poor farming.
What is the dust bowl?
These types of energy resources produce very low amounts of greenhouse gases.
What are renewable energy resources?
What percentage of Earth's water is freshwater?
Unlike most substances, water does this when it freezes.
What is expand?
What two negative things resulted from the dust bowl?
What are illness and death?
These two things are what fossil fuels were made from over millions of years.
What are plants & animals?
This word describes land where all water drains into the same river or lake.
What is a watershed?
This term means water can absorb lots of heat before changing temperature.
What is specific heat?
After the Dust Bowl, the government planted grasses and added this underground to help farmers.
What is irrigation?
List two non renewable energy resources:
Nuclear, Oil, Coal, Natural Gas
Most of the ground water we use goes to this industry.
What is agriculture?
This term means water can stick to other materials.
What is adhesion?
Unfortunately, the reliance on irrigation has caused a _____ of the underground aquifers.
What is depletion or decline?
List three renewable energy resources:
Wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, hydrogen fuel, and biomass
This layer underground stops water from moving between aquifers.
What is an aquitard?
This is the primary source of water used for irrigation and drinking water.
What is ground water?
List the three causes of the Dust Bowl:
Weather, prolonged drought, and poor farming techniques.