Fossil Fuels
What is non-renewable?
Three types of alternative energy sources are.
What are solar, wind and hydropower?
Also accept: biomass and geothermal
Conservations means
What is the careful use of natural resources so they do not run out?
True or False, Alberta used to be covered by the ocean
What is true?
What is it gives us food and other materials from crops and animals?
The fossil fuel projected to run out first
What is oil?
What are renewable, cheap once you get started and no pollution?
What are national and provincial parks, laws to protect forests from unlicensed logging, laws about keeping fossils in Alberta, etc?
What are the remains of ancient plants and animals that have turned to stone?
What are meat, dairy, wool, etc.?
These are the pros of using fossil fuels
What are convenience, heat, electricity, and products like plastic?
What is an expensive setup, weather reliant and not as nice looking?
Forests can be a sustainable resource if we do these things
What are replanting, protecting from disease and wildfires and rules about logging?
Scientists who study fossils
What are paleontologists?
What are forests, water, wind, fossil fuels, etc.?
These are the cons of using fossil fuels.
What are non-renewable, release CO2 into the atmosphere and destroy habitat?
One pro and one con for wind power is
What are renewable, cheap after the initial start-up and no pollution for pros and takes up space, kills birds, expensive start-up for cons?
Sustainable means
What is using something wisely so it does not run out?
What are geologists?
Four jobs created from our resources are
What are scientists, transport jobs, factory workers, lumber jacks, oil rig/pump jack workers, engineers, etc.?
Two ways the discovery of fossil fuels changed Alberta.
What has created jobs, made life more convenient and brought more money to our province?
Define renewable resources and give two examples
What is a resource that will not run out and examples are forests, water, sun, wind, etc?
Name three ways we can conserve energy.
What are taking shorter showers, turning off the water when brushing teeth, picking up litter, not using more than what we need, using the back side of paper, turning off the lights when we are done, etc.?
Two reasons Royal Tyrrell Museum is important to Alberta are
What are protects fossils, keeps fossils in Alberta, paleontologists can study them, brings tourism, etc.?
Three ways resources help Alberta
What are jobs, money, items, convenience, etc.?