Fossil Fuels
True or False. Coal and Oil are fossil fuels
what is true?
This greenhouse gas, primarily produced by the burning of fossil fuels, is a major contributor to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
The machine that produces wind energy is called
What is a wind turbine?
This fossil fuel is primarily used for electricity generation and heating in homes.
What is natural gas?
The release of this chemical into water bodies can cause oxygen depletion and harm aquatic life, often resulting from agricultural runoff.
What is nitrogen or phosphorus (commonly from fertilizers)?
This is the term for the area where wind turbines are grouped together to generate electricity on a large scale.
What is a wind farm?
This liquid fossil fuel, derived from crude oil, is used in cars, trucks, and airplanes.
What is gasoline?
the energy source that disrupts aquatic ecosystems and alters water flow
What is hydroelectric energy
This country is the global leader in wind energy capacity, producing over a third of the world’s total wind energy.
What is China?
This process involves extracting fossil fuels from the Earth using drilling and mining techniques.
What is extraction drilling?
This is an environmental impact for all energy sources
What is air pollution?
This is the process of selecting and developing locations for wind turbines, where consistent wind speeds are required for optimal energy generation.
What is siting or site selection?
This method of extracting oil from deep underground shale deposits involves high-pressure water, sand, and chemicals to fracture the rock and release the oil.
What is hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking")?
This environmental consequence, caused by the large-scale burning of fossil fuels, leads to the acidification of oceans, disrupting marine ecosystems and threatening coral reefs.
What is ocean acidification?
The efficiency of a wind turbine is often expressed by this ratio, which compares the actual energy output to the maximum possible energy output.
What is the capacity factor?