Coal
What do we use coal for?
1. grilling/bbq
2. trains
3. power plants
name 3 things we use oil for
1. transportation
2. heating homes and buildings
3. power plants
Name 3 things we use gas for
1. transportation
2. heating
3. power plants
4. appliances- stoves, washers, dryers
What is the mineral that is mined for nuclear energy?
Uranium
What is the base word of "renewable" and "nonrenewable"
New
What are the two ways we get coal?
mining and mountaintop removal mining
Name 2 ways we get oil
1. Oil Derricks
2. Oil tankers
How do we get gas?
Fracking
What is the main benefit of using Nuclear energy?
There is no CO2 omission-does not add to global warming
What is the suffix of "nonrenewable" and what does it mean?
Able- can
What are at least 2 dangers of mining?
1. can get trapped in the mine
2. exposure to dangerous gasses
3. exposure to ash, which can cause lung cancer
What are some dangers of drilling for oil on land?
1. wasteful--oil can shoot up in the air
2. oil leaks/fires
What do we do to gas to make it so humans can tell when it's leaking, since we can't see it?
Add a smell of sulphur (rotten eggs) so that we can smell it and know it's leaking
Where is the waste water from nuclear energy stored?
What is the suffix in "nonrenewable" and "renewable" and what does it mean?
"Able"- can
What is one positive effect of mountaintop removal mining?
it is safer for the miners because they don't have to go underground
what are the dangers of drilling for oil through the ocean
1.oil spills in the ocean that harm the animals and land
2. can cause underground earthquakes
What are some effects of using gas on the planet (besides the dangers of fracking)?
1. omits a lot of co2 and contributes to global warming (although it burns off eventually if left on its own)
What is the main risk/danger for using nuclear energy
If there is a leak/explosion, it is impossible to contain and very hard to stop
What are the prefixes in "nonrenewable" and what do they mean?
Non- no or not
Re- again
What are at least 2 negative effects of mountaintop removal mining?
1. destroys the mountain
2. dynamite is dangerous
3. destroys the habitats and water around the mountain when they put all the blown off mountain parts there
What is a negative side effect we've seen from oil spills in class?
1. harms animals
2.erodes (washes it away overtime) land
Explain why fracking is dangerous
1. gas leaks
2. underground earthquakes
3. where to put the poisonous water created during fracking?
Besides the health effects of leaking, what is the other reason it is dangerous/tricky to store nuclear waste in the ground.
possible answers- 1. it takes 24,000 years to stop being toxic, and none of us will be alive for that long to make sure it's done correctly
2. can be used to make nuclear bombs, once buried in the ground, anyone could take and use it
Based on the prefixes, base word and suffix, what does "nonrenewable" mean?
cannot be made new again