Solar Energy
The popular technology used to convert sunlight into electricity
What are solar panels?
The device is used to capture energy from the wind and turn it into electricity
What is a wind turbine?
The main source of energy for hydroelectric plants?
What is flowing water?
Type of materials used to produce biomass energy
What are organic materials? (animal waste, plant waste)
The main source of energy used to produce geothermal energy
What is heat from the Earth's crust?
One major benefit of using solar energy
What is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions?
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Sunlight is basically endless, so it is a dependable source of energy
Term to describe a collective area of wind turbines
What are wind farms?
This structure is used on rivers to generate energy through running water.
What is a dam?
The advantage to using biomass energy in contrast to fossil fuels
What is reduces waste and emissions
The main form of harnessing geothermal energy for electricity generation
What is steam from a hot water reservoir?
The term for large solar energy instillations that generate energy for the grid
What is a solar farm?
In the United States, where wind energy is most commonly generated
What is "Tornado Ally" or the Midwest?
An environmental concern related to the health of the ecosystem impacted by hydropower plants
What is the impact on aquatic life, aquatic ecosystem, and fish population
The biomass fuel that is commonly produced from corn
What is ethanol?
what is the cost or environmental impact?
Ways states try to influence the use of solar panels
What is rebates Or tax credits?
This is how wind energy is converted
What is via movement, connected to an electric generator?
Variables that effect the amount of energy produced
What is volume and height from source and water outflow?
What is dry biomass and wet biomass?
Natural occurrence of geoenergy
What is an erupting volcano or geyser?
This is how sunlight is converted to energy
What is converting light radiation from the sun called, photoelectric effect?
Two ways wind kinetic energy have been used in the past
What is grind wheat or pump water, (traditional windmills)?
Two main types of hydroelectricity production
What is hydrodams and run of river?
The gas produced from wet biomass
what is methane gas?
True or False: Geothermal is the most explored reliable energy source
What is false?