When building a home, the sun can be used as one of these
What is a natural heater?
100
Electricity is the flow of these types of particles
What are electrons?
100
Fossil fuels are rich in these kind of compounds
What is carbon?
100
The process in which lightweight atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus, releasing huge amounts of energy; basically the opposite of nuclear fission
What is nuclear fusion?
200
Energy produced by converting the energy of moving water
What is Hydroelectricity?
200
Using one of these to collect solar energy is a method of heating water
What is a solar collector?
200
Electric generators amount to how much percent of all electricity used in the United States
What is 29%?
200
Fossil fuels amount to this percentage of the world's energy
What is 90%?
200
An example of nuclear fission, which is an uncontrolled release of nuclear energy
What is an atomic bomb?
300
Energy that is drawn from heat within the earth and used the drive electric generators
What is Geothermal Energy?
300
Particles that directly convert the suns energy into electricity
What are solar cells?
300
Electric generators amount to this much percent of the world's energy
What is 19%?
300
The result of burning fossil fuels that is released into the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
300
The degrees (in celcius) that nuclear energy must be stored at and is held in very high concentrations and properly contained
What is 100,000,000°c?
400
The process in which subatomic bonds that bind the components of the atomic nucleus are broken apart, releasing huge amounts of energy
What is Nuclear Fission?
400
When the sun is not around, this is considered another method for energy use (some of which can be solar powered)
What are batteries?
400
Moving this in and out of a magnetic field is the simplest way to create electricity
What is a copper wire?
400
The USA has approximately 400 years of this fossil fuels before it is completely depleted
What is coal?
400
The year when nuclear energy was considered to be "the future"
What is 1950?
500
Organic matter in plants or plant products. Used to heat homes as an alternative to fossil fuels, and this is in the form of waste material from industrial processes so the companies use it for various things
What is Biomass?
500
Another type of energy that is produced through solar energy
What is wind energy?
500
A convertor of mechanical energy into electricity
What is an electric generator?
500
Fossil fuel burning is responsible for this environmental concern
What is global warming?
500
The blockage of valves and broken pumps at a nuclear plant could release this into the atmosphere