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Heating & Cooling
Water Heating
Appliances
Lighting
Energy Sources
100
A branching network of tubes that carry air throughout your home
What are air ducts?
100
Between the bath and the shower, this uses the most water and energy
What is a bath?
100
Wash clothes in this type of water
What is cold?
100
Fluorescent lamps are much more efficient than this type
What is incandescent?
100
Burning wood, fast growing grasses and tress is this energy source
What is biomass?
200
More than half of U.S. uses this energy source to heat homes
What is natural gas?
200
Water heating ranks this as an energy expense in your home
What is third?
200
Most of the energy used to run your computer is for
What is the monitor?
200
CFL is an abbreviation for this
What is compact fluorescent light?
200
The element used as the fuel in nuclear reactors is
What is Uranium-235?
300
This type of thermostat can save as much as 10% a year on heating and cooling bills
What is programmable?
300
This temperature setting provides comfortable hot water for most uses
What is 120 degrees?
300
A kilowatt is this many watts
What is 1000?
300
CFLs are this many times more efficient than ILs
What is 4 (or 75% - 90%)?
300
Fossil fuels are considered _____ because we use them at a faster rate than the earth can produce them
What is non-renewable?
400
A natural and beautiful way to reduce energy bills
What is landscaping?
400
This home activity uses the most water
What is clothes washing?
400
In natural gas appliances look for this color flame
What is blue?
400
Outdoors you should use lights with a photocell or this type of sensor
What is motion sensor?
400
This is the most widely used renewable energy source
What is hydropower?
500
Keep this closed unless a fire is going
What is the damper?
500
Consider installing this type of faucet
What is low flow?
500
Use this instead of a window air conditioner to save energy
What is a fan?
500
Most schools use these kinds of light bulbs in the halls and classrooms
What are fluorescent?
500
Replacing a 100 watt incandescent bulb with a fluorescent bulb will save burning _____ pounds of coal
What is 600?