Nuclear Power
This is the fuel for a typical nuclear power plant.
What is uranium-235?
A drawback of these is that bats and birds can be killed if they fly into them.
What are wind turbines?
This is the number of Watts in one kilowatt.
What is 1000 Watts?
This is the percent of worldwide water used for agriculture.
What is 70%?
This is a measure of the reflectivity of a surface.
What is albedo?
This is the process where an atom is split into smaller parts after being struck by a neutron. It releases a large amount of heat.
What is nuclear fission?
This renewable energy source can be categorized as active or passive.
What is solar energy?
If 5,000 kJ of energy are in the second trophic level, how many kJ of energy will be available to the fourth tropic level?
What is 50 kJ?
This is the most efficient irrigation method and uses perforated hoses to release small amounts of water to close to a plants roots.
This is an international agreement where developed and developing nations agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in order to combat global warming.
what is the Kyoto Protocol?
This is major drawback of using nuclear power because the long-term storage and safety of it is a major concern.
What is nuclear waste?
This type of renewable energy uses a fuel cell rather than turbine-generator technology to produce electricity.
What is a hydrogen fuel cell?
This can be found by subtracting plant respiration from Gross Primary Productivity (GPP)?
What is Net Primary Productivity (NPP)?
This is a large unconfined aquifer in the central U.S. that is being overexploited for irrigation in agriculture.
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
This area of the Earth that is experiencing the fastest response to global change as a result of positive feedback loops.
What are the polar regions?
In this nuclear accident in 2011, an earthquake and resulting tsunami damaged the nuclear reactor at this power plant in Japan.
This is a gas that can be released during electricity production using geothermal energy. It has a rotten egg smell.
What is hydrogen sulfide (H2S)?
This can be calculated by multiplying power x time.
What is energy?
This is a method used to farm fish and other aquatic species in a controlled environment, whether on land or in controlled open water environments.
What is aquaculture?
This greenhouse gas has a global warming potential (GWP) of 1.
What is carbon dioxide?
Cooling water from a nuclear power plant can cause major thermal pollution issues in local waterways, primarily because it drives down the level of this in the water.
What is dissolved oxygen (DO)?
This is the element used in the production of electricity using photovoltaic panels.
What is silicon?
An area that measures 10 meters by 10 meters receives 10 cm of rain. This is the amount of storm-water runoff the area produce in cubic meters (assume it is 100% impervious).
What is 10 cubic meters?
This is a combination of methods including biological, physical and limited chemical techniques to control pests while minimizing environmental impact.
What is integrated pest management (IPM)?
This greenhouse gas is released from melting permafrost.
What is methane?