WATTS the Big Idea
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Alberta - Canada's Energy Capital
Terrific Trivia
100
This is the process of using steam to spin turbines and generate electricity in thermal power plants.
What is thermal electricity?
100
This source of electricity is the largest across Canada, but very small in Alberta.
What is hydroelectricity?
100
Wind energy in Alberta is concentrated in this part of the province.
What is the south?
100
Historically, Indigenous people would use bitumen to waterproof these.
What are canoes?
100
The majority of careers for these two renewable energy sectors is in installation of equipment.
What are wind and solar?
200
In hydroelectric plants, electricity is generated by spinning turbines with this.
What is water?
200
This energy source relies on the heat from within the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
200
The product that is extracted from the oil sands is called this.
What is bitumen?
200
This well, Alberta's first near Turner Valley produced what non-renewable resource? 
What is natural gas?
200
Some of the largest trucks in the world are used in oil sands mining. They're sometimes called dumptrucks, but are more properly called this in Alberta.
What are heavy haulers?
300
This is Alberta's largest renewable energy source.
What is wind?
300
An environmental concern regarding wind energy is impacts on these critters.
What are birds and bats?
300
This machine is used to bring convention oil from underground wells to the surface. 
What is a pumpjack?
300
In addition to Fort McMurray, these two larger communities have oil sands deposits nearby.
What are Cold Lake and Peace River?
300
Through a combination of taxes and royalties, oil and gas development is the largest contributor to what, in Alberta.
What is the economy?
400
Solar panels use these specialized cells to convert sunlight into electricity - sometimes abbreviated PV for short.
What are photovoltaic cells?
400
Electricity is produced by spinning wire usually made of this material through a magnetic field.
What is copper?
400
In this process, water and sand are pumped underground with a lot of pressure to crack rock formations below.
What is hydraulic fracturing (fracking)?
400
A series of these industrial plants are located near Sherwood Park and convert oil into usable products like gasoline and jet fuel.
What are oil refineries?
400
Most of the easily accessible deposits of this non-renewable resource have already been identified and developed.
What is conventional oil?
500
This system stores energy by pumping water uphill and releasing it downhill to spin turbines
What is pumped hydro storage?
500
Near what Alberta Star Trek-sounding community can you find Canada's largest wind farm?
What is Vulcan?
500
Alberta is situated in this four-word geological area that brings benefits of oil, natural gas and coal.
What is the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin?
500
The conversion of Alberta's thermal electricity generating stations has resulted in the virtual elimination of this non-renewable resource for energy purposes.
What is coal?
500
The process to separate bitumen from sand in the oil sands has had this one constant ingredient since it was first developed - an ingredient that still is used to this day.
What is hot water?