Electric Charge
This is the accumulation of excess electric charge on an object.
What is static electricity?
These are fossil fuels.
What are: coal, natural gas, and petroleum?
This is the difference between fusion and fission.
What is: fusion occurs when nuclei combine and fission occurs when nuclei split?
These are some examples of renewable energy resources.
What are: solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal sources of energy?
This is the largest number of individuals of a particular species that the environment can support, given the natural resources available.
What is carrying capacity?
The law of conservation of charge states this.
What is: charge can be transferred from object to object, but cannot be created or destroyed?
This is the reason fossil fuels are called "fossil" fuels.
What is: they form from the remains of ancient organisms after being buried and altered over millions of years?
This uses energy from controlled nuclear reactions to generate electricity.
What is a nuclear reactor?
This converts radiant energy directly into electrical energy.
What is a photovoltaic cell?
These are any substances that contaminate the environment.
What are pollutants?
This surrounds every electric charge and exerts the force that causes other electric charges to be attracted or repelled.
What is an electric field?
These are resources that cannot be replaced by natural processes as quickly as they are being used.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This is any radioactive material that results when radioactive materials are used.
What is nuclear waste?
Thermal energy that is contained in and around magma is called this.
What is geothermal energy?
This is the clearing of forest land for agriculture, grazing, urban development or logging.
What is deforestation?
Transferring charge by touching or rubbing is called this.
What is charging by contact?
This fossil fuel is estimated to last another 200-250 years and is the most abundant fossil fuel we have.
What is coal?
This is the way nuclear chain reactions are controlled.
What are excess neutrons get absorbed by control rods?
This is renewable organic matter, such as wood, soy, corn, sugarcane, rice hulls, and animal manure that can be burned in the presence of oxygen and converted to energy.
What is biomass?
These are ways we can help solve how much we impact sanitary landfills.
What are: reuse, recycle and burn waste?
This is the way you charge by induction.
What is: You place a charged object near a neutral object, and the electrons will be charged in the neutral object?
This fossil fuel contains more chemical potential energy per kilogram than the other two.
What is natural gas?
These are some disadvantages of using nuclear power.
What are: expensive to build plants, long process to build, they produce radioactive waste than can be harmful to humans?
In the year 2030, the U.S. Department of Energy wants to increase our use of this type of energy to provide 20% of our total electrical power.
What is wind energy?
This is the way photochemical smog differs from regular smog.
What is, it is in the presence of sunlight interacting with those chemicals and oxygen in the atmosphere.