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Anybody's guess
100
Companies do not want to stop polluting because it will hurt this.
What is their profits.
100
The technology that is involved in almost every job today.
What is the computer.
100
This energy source is free once installed, cost effective and being used right in upstate NY.
What is wind energy
100
When a resource cannot provide for our needs now and in the future.
What is unsustainable
100
Your view of reality. It may not be correct but it changes how you evaluate things.
What is your paradigm
200
Smoke from burning coal floats over New York and creates this.
What is acid rain?
200
When technology has both good and unexpected bad outputs they are categorized as this.
What is expected and desirable also unexpected and undesirable?
200
This energy source is very expensive to use and we have use energy to make the fuel.
What is a hydrogen fuel cell.
200
This protects us from the suns ultraviolet rays. We damaged it with CFC's (a chemical used in foam cups and air conditioners)
What is the Ozone layer.
200
What was the unexpected and undesired impact of burning fossil fuels.
What is global climate change. (no one knew it would happen when oil was discovered)
300
This may melt the polar ice caps and flood the land millions of people live on.
What is global climate change.
300
What NIMBY means
What does Not In My Back Yard stand for? Many people are ok with new technologies like wind turbines unless they are in their backyard.
300
The problem with these forms of energy is that they do not meet our base load needs (24 hours a day minimum energy needs).
What is sustainable energy sources like wind, solar, and wave or tidal energy.
300
What are the three "R"s of solid waste. They must be in order from least impact to worst impact to get credit.
Reduce, reuse, then recycle what is left! Reducing will limit waste, reusing will prevent it from having to be recycled which takes energy.
300
These resources are produced from naturally growing plants and animals.
What is biomass.
400
This alternative energy sources work 24 hours a day.
What is geothermal energy.
400
Technology builds on itself growing at this ever faster rate.
What is exponential.
400
Name 3 energy sources that use steam to spin a turbine
What is geothermal, nuclear, biomass burning, coal power plant, Oil, natural gas.
400
Pollution that can be traced to its origin and cleaned up.
What is point source pollution? Non Point Source is diffuse and spread out.
400
What damaged the ozone layer?
What is Clouro Flouro Carbons (CFC's) from the propellant in spray cans. Ozone layer, acid rain, and Global climate change are different problems with different causes. Do you know them all?
500
What country produces the most carbon dioxide?
What is China. America produces the most per person but not the most total.
500
Why you must make choices about which technologies are appropriate for you and your family.
You are responsible for controlling technologies impact on your life. The are dangers technologies and our government is not always able to keep them away from us.
500
Tidal energy is created by this.
What is the moon's gravity. We put turbines in the tidal flow and generate electricity as the blades spin.
500
Melting ice caps, disappearing glaciers, changing climates, droughts, unusual storms, flooding, an ocean anoxic event.
What is some possible impacts of global climate change.
500
Most of our energy sources either directly or indirectly come from here.
What is the sun. Hydro electric, solar, wind, wave, biomass, fossil fuels come from the sun. Geothermal, nuclear, and tidal come from other sources. (though the suns location effects the tides a little too).