Nonrenewable
This kind of nonrenewable energy resource is made of long dead organisms
What are fossil fuels?
Solar energy comes directly from this source
This small, orange, mustachioed creature speaks for the trees
These numbers never lie, but liars may use them
What are statistics?
The event or period of time that kicked off humanity's ramping up its use of fossil fuels
What is the industrial revolution?
This solid fossil fuel has twice the energy by mass of wood, and accounts for about 30% of the electricity in the United States.
What is coal?
Turbines spun by moving air create energy of this variety
What is wind energy?
This character deduces and delivers the following message "UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
Who is the Once-ler?
When interpreting information from different sources, one must be careful to understand the way the presenter might be influenced to one side or another. This influence is called
What is bias?
A gas that traps heat in the atmosphere, warming the earth
What is a greenhouse gas?
This fossil fuel is also used to produce plastics and synthetic fibers
What is oil/petroleum?
An energy produced by running water over a turbine, that could disrupt fish migrations
What is hydroelectric energy?
The material necessary to produce a good Thneed, a fine something that all people need
What is Truffula tuft?
This is not equivalent to causation, but is often treated as if it is.
What is correlation?
An event that could pollute and destroy huge swaths of ocean related to fossil fuels
What is an oil spill?
This process uses hydraulic fluid to harvest natural gas (methane) from deep within the earth
Hydraulic Fracturing/Fracking
Sunlight is inconsistent, solar energy is hard to store, solar farms use a lot of land, and they are expensive to build.
What are the cons of solar energy?
This bear-like creature lived in the Truffula forest until it was forced to leave due to lack of food after too many trees were chopped down
What is a Brown-bar-ba-loot?
A reason that someone might make a misleading graph
What is deception/misleading/money/etc?
All the energy on Earth ultimately comes from this source
The only significant nonrenewable energy resource that does not produce carbon dioxide
What is nuclear energy?
The primary factor that has delayed our adoption of renewable resources throughout the modern world
What is the fossil fuel industry/corporate greed/corruption?
Truffula trees smell like this insect secretion
What is butterfly milk?
An environment where a person only encounters information or opinions that reflect and reinforce their own
What is an echo chamber?
Any useful material that is found in nature
What is a natural resource?