What Type of Energy
What percentage of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down since 1970?
20%
Which of the following is NOT a Georgia mining resource?
-Clay
-Salt
-Stone
-Barite
Salt
Mountaintop mining is a type of underground mine.
True or false?
False!
This type of fossil fuel is used to make gasoline and plastics.
What is petroleum?
This is Georgia's number one crop.
What is cotton?
This type of renewable energy comes from dead organisms
What is biomass?
Which of this natural resources is not a fossil fuel?
Uranium
Coal
Natural Gas
Petroleum
***Bonus 200 points if you can tell me what energy it used in***
Uranium
BONUS: Nuclear energy (fission)
This is a soft, organic material consisting of partly decayed plant matter.
What is peat?
Describe the heat island effect.
The retention of heat due to sunlight-absorbing materials like concrete, bare soil, and asphalt
How do we release the energy from fossil fuels?
We BURN it!!!
What are open-pit mines?
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is used to extract this fossil fuel.
What is natural gas?
Harnessing energy from underground sources of heat and steam.
What is geothermal energy?
Heat islands are a negative consequence of this.
What is urbanization?
These are materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What are natural resources?
Give me a negative effect of mining.
Land erosion
Pollution
Use of a large amount of energy
Habitat Destruction
This fossil fuel is often extracted at the same time as petroleum.
What is natural gas?
Give me four types of alternative energy are suitable for Georgia?
(must have four to get the points)
Solar, nuclear, wind (offshore) hydropower, & biomass
What benefit is obtained from cutting down rainforests?
Obtaining farm land
Land for Building
Firewood is a nonrenewable resource. True or false?
False.
Plants can be regrown
This term refers to the restoration of mined land back to its original condition.
What is reclamation?
Put these types of coal in order of LOWEST energy to HIGHEST energy.
Anthracite
Bituminous
Lignite
Peat
Peat LOWEST
Lignite
Bituminous
Anthracite HIGHEST