Life Support Systems
All energy can be traced back to this
What is the sun?
Hydropower/Hydroelectricity
What is renewablele?
An effective way to save energy at home
What is turning off the lights, unplugging appliances, turning down the thermostat, insulating, etc.?
Restoring the land to its original condition after mining
What is reclamation?
Effects of global warming
What is melting glaciers, rising sea levels, warmer oceans, changing precipitation patterns, changes in plant and animal ranges?
The four things all plants, animals, and humans need to survive
What are water, air, soil, energy?
Nuclear Power
What is nonrenewable?
The most efficient light bulb
What is a LED?
The energy source that produces radioactive waste and stays harmful for thousands of years
What is nuclear energy?
Local temperature and precipitation changes
What is weather?
The meaning of biotic and abiotic
What is living and nonliving?
The gas produced by burning fossil fuels
What is carbon dioxide(CO2)?
An appliance that gets most of its energy from nuclear power plants
What is refrigerators?
Biofuels are made of this
living things (plants and animals)
Changes in temperature and precipitation over a long period of time
What is climate?
Sustainability
What is the wise use of resources?
Heating from the Earth as an energy source
What is geothermal?
The percentage of energy used for lighting in the U.S.
What is 20%? (Correct if you choose between 15-25%).
acid rain is made by combining nitrogen, sulfur, and _____
What is water?
The Earth's global average temperature is projected to rise this many degrees by 2100
3 - 7. (Correct if you answer between 0 - 12)
The steps of the energy timeline
What is idk
The most widely used energy source
What is coal?
The millions of carbon dioxide that could be saved if every American turned their water heater down 10 degrees
What is 45? (You will be given points if between 40-50)
The unit of measure for operating a lightmeter
What is a footcandle?
Three types of fossil fuels
oil, coal, natural gas