Fossil Fuels
This solid, black fossil fuel forms from compressed plant material in swamps millions of years ago and is one of the largest sources of CO₂ emissions when burned.
What is Coal?
This mineral with the chemical formula SiO₂ forms when magma cools and crystallizes.
What is quartz?
CO2, Methane, NOx, SOx
What is an example of emissions?
In the worst-case 2050 climate scenario, rising temperatures cause permanent ice and soil in the Arctic to thaw, releasing trapped CO₂ and methane. This frozen layer is called...
What is permafrost?
The country currently produces and uses the most oil in the world
What is the United States?
In oil sands extraction, a viscous bituminous material is mixed with hot water and sand. The waste product left behind is called...
What are tailings?
Sand deposits form when rocks are broken down by....
What is erision?
Formed from organic matter over millions of years, comprised many of carbon, oil, gas, coal
What are fossil fuels?
In the worst-case 2050 scenario driven by continued fossil fuel dependence, global sea levels rise due to melting ice sheets and thermal expansion, threatening cities and agricultural areas with inundation. This phenomenon is called...
What is sea level rise?
This country has the world's largest oil reserves.
What is Saudi Arabia?
The impermeable layer of rock that prevents oil from escaping is called a...
What is cap rock
The p/n junction in a solar cell is created by doping silicon with two different chemical elements. This process creates the electric field needed to generate...
What is electricity?
The switch from Fossil Fuels to renewables
What is the renewable energy transition
In the worst-case 2050 scenario, droughts, floods, .... . These interconnected crises create...
What is food scarcity and migration?
Currently Solar Energy creates this percentage of the world's energy.
What is 6%?
A thick fossil fuel that requires extracting, processing, and refining.
What is bitumen?
The Life cycle of a solar panel is approximately how many years?
What is 25-30 years?
What is a carbon feedback loop (or tipping point)?
In the best-case 2050 scenario, rapid transition to renewable energy achieves net-zero CO₂ emissions. Which energy sources must expand massively to reach this scenario?
What are solar, wind, hydroelectric, and other renewables?
Burning Fossil fuels creates these, CO2, NO2, SO2
What are emissions?
The narrow ocean gap that is currently closed due to the war in Iran, causing a huge spike in global oil prices.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
How are fossil fuel resources and mineral resources for solar panels similar?
Both take millions of years to form?
What is the global temperature increase that the world is trying to prevent going beyond, to minimize the worst effects of global warming?
A: 1 degree, B: 2 degrees, C: 3 degrees
What is B, 2 degrees
This is the planetary state where emissions created are equal to emissions captured
What is Net Zero?
The time needed to meet the world's energy demands for a whole year if all the sunlight on Earth were captured. a. 24 hours b. 12 hours c. 6 hours d. 1 hour
What is 1 hour?