Renewable Resources
These are the renewable energy sources we have learned about in this unit.
What are solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermic energy.
These are the 3 fossil fuels.
What are coal, oil (petroleum), and natural gas?
The energy of motion of a moving hybrid car has mechanical energy that will become this, which is stored in a battery.
What is electricity?
What is a renewable resource?
This is formed when organic matter (dead plants and animals) are buried and pressed down deep in the Earth.
What are fossil fuels?
These 2 renewable energy sources can be scarce depending on the weather.
What are wind and solar energy?
Carbon dioxide is also known as this, which traps heat on Earth's surface.
What is greenhouse gasses?
Moving air produces waves on the water. Rather than using their diesel engines, these waves can have this effect on boats.
What is a free source of energy?
This describes the balance of factors when benefits outweigh costs.
What is cost-effective?
This type of energy is used without active pumps, electrical devices or other sources of energy.
What is passive solar energy?
This energy type relies on tides that produce a strong current for turbines to create electricity.
This specific type of material must be used to release nuclear energy.
What is uranium-235?
Daily Double!
These organism can be impacted negatively due to the mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants.
What are tuna and humans?
A resource that cannot be restored as quickly as it is used.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
When this fossil fuel is burned it produces a lot of carbon dioxide and releases other pollutants into the air.
What is burning coal?
This renewable energy requires a source of steam or hot water that must be found in areas where Earth's crust is active.
What is geothermal energy?
Petroleum can be burned to generate mechanical, electrical, or thermal energy. It can be turned into these products.
What are plastics and asphalt?
Drilling wells for a geothermal power plant can cause this to escape.
What is natural gas?
A device in which a chemical reaction takes place to produce electricity, similar to a battery.
What is a fuel cell?
These 2 pieces of equipment are used to generate electricity in most non-renewable energy sources.
What are the turbine and generator?
This new material can be used to harness the energy of motion. It has been experimental with sidewalks at heavily populated areas.
What is a triangular tile?
This fossil fuel is the most abundant in the United States.
What is coal?
One cost of biofuels is that they put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, leading to this effect.
What is climate change?
A combustible (burnable) fuel made from the remains of recently living organisms.
What is biofuel?
This powerplant recycles water by converting thermal energy into electricity and pumping the cooled water back into a reservoir through a different well.
What is a geothermal power plant?