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Making Electricity
Fossil Fuel
Its Nuclear
Name It
100
What turns a generator?
What is a turbine?
100
How soon is it predicted we will run out of fossil fuels?
What is about 250 years?
100
a form of hydrogen used during nuclear fusion
What is deuterium?
100
World's largest nuclear disaster caused by unauthorized test completed while safety tests were turned off.
What is Chernobyl?
200
uses a magnetic field to produce electricity
What is electric generator?
200
burns relatively cleanly
What is natural gas?
200
What is one factor that determines whether a country uses nuclear energy?
What is cost, availability of other resources, etc?
200
____ can be refined into many different products including plastics.
What is oil?
300
Electric generators convert _______ energy into ________ energy.
What is mechanical/electric?
300
energy source derived from the remains of plants that lived millions of years ago
What is coal?
300
splitting of the bonds holding subatomic particles together
What is nuclear fission?
300
Name a fuel source that DOES NOT release CO2 when it is used to produce electricity.
What is uranium-235?
400
What is most energy in US used for?
What is industry? (38%)
400
Why aren't fossil fuels renewable if they come from dead organisms?
What is it takes too long?
400
combining lightweight atomic nuclei to form heavier nucleus
What is nuclear fusion?
400
_________ burns more cleanly than gasoline.
What is natural gas?
500
Sources of fuel for most power-plants in the US because it is inexpensive and requires little refining.
What is coal?
500
What percent of the electricity generated in US comes from fossil fuels?
What is 60%?
500
Why are few nuclear power plants being built today?
too expensive to generate electricity at reasonable cost
500
5 Factors that influence the value of a fuel.
What is 1) energy content, 2) cost, 3) availability, 4) safety, and 5) by-products?