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Making Electricity
Fossil Fuel
Its Nuclear
Name It
Hahahahahahaha
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
The location/name of the most serious nuclear accident in the United States
What was Three Mile Island?
100
World's largest nuclear disaster caused by unauthorized test completed while safety tests were turned off.
What is Chernobyl?
100
Free points?
Free points!
200
uses a magnetic field to produce electricity
What is electric generator?
200
Oil deposits that can be extracted profitably at current prices
What are oil reserves?
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?

What is Petroleum?

200

Why aren't fossil fuels renewable if they come from dead organisms?

What is it takes too long?

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?
300
The three countries that use the most energy per person
What are the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and the United States of America?
400
What is most energy in US used for?
What is industry? (38%)
400
Oil that is pumped from the ground, also known as crude
What is petroleum? 
400
combining lightweight atomic nuclei to form heavier nucleus
What is nuclear fusion?
400
_________ burns more cleanly than gasoline.
What is natural gas?
400

a form of hydrogen used during nuclear fusion

What is Deuterium
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?
500

A type of fossil fuel that may be used in the future, found in the oceans- specifically where there are stable, low temperatures and high pressure.

What are Methane Hydrates?