Fossil fuels
This type of oil migrates to the to highest point in porous rock and accumulates there, allowing removal by drilling.
What is crude oil?
What is cogeneration?
What is biodiesel?
Nuclear disaster in the Ukraine in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
What are control rods?
A geophysicist and oil company employee created a graph of oil use. He predicted that oil extraction and use would increase steadily until about half of the supply had been used up. He called it peak oil. Identify the graph.
What is the Hubbert Curve?
Uses active solar energy and electrical generation.
What are photovoltaic cells?
Made from converting starches and sugars from plant material into alcohol. Example: corn
What is ethanol?
A measurement of radiation.
What is a curie or a becquerel?
2010 blowout in the Gulf releasing 206 million gallons of oil.
What is the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well.
The joule is a measurement of this fossil fuel expenditure.
What is energy?
Uses the power of water to generate electricity.
What is a hydroelectric power plant?
Liquid fuels made from refined biomass.
What are biofuels?
A material has a radioactivity level of 100 curies and has a half-life of 50 years, the radioactivity after 200 years will be 6.3 curies. How many half lives?
What is four?
Contains more than 90% carbon, highest quantity of energy per volume of coal and the purest.
What is anthracite?
An energy source with finite supply.
What is a renewable energy source?
Heating and cooling a home by accessing heat from underground.
What is ground source heat pump?
Burning this material for fuel from livestock can release harmful particulates into the air.
What is manure?
Drawback of using nuclear power.
What is the challenge of storing the high level radioactive waste or thermal pollution form the cooling towers.
AP exam tip: avoid using nuclear accidents.
What is carbon neutral?
Two nondepletable energy sources.
What is wind and solar?
Uses the power of hydrogen which reacts with oxygen and forms the waste product water.
What is a hydrogen fuel cell?
This type of dirty fuel is made from burned wood that has been heated in the absence of oxygen to drive off water. Used more in the developing world.
What is charcoal?
Well known partial meltdown in 1979 at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
What is Three Mile Island?
Energy sources that are bought and sold, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
What are commercial energy sources?