Science Final
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- movement of large amounts of water
- what provides the source of energy for a tidal power plant
- natural gas
- Which fossil fuel produces the lowest levels of most air pollution
- It will not run out for billions of years
- Which of the "following" is an advantadge of solar energy
- nuclear fusion
- the combining of 2 atomic nuclei to produce one larger nucleus is called
- refineries
- Factories where crude oil is separated into fuels and other products
- Take hundred of millions of years to form
- Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable because they
- electricity
- In the future cars may provide energy savings by running on
- nuclear fission
- The splitting of an atom's nucleus into 2 smaller nuclei
- combustion
- The process of burning a fuel to change chem. energy into thermal energy
- passenger trains
- Solar cells are sometimes used to power all of the "following" except
- Geothermal energy
- The intense heat beneath the Earth's surface is called
- heat released from the reactions
- In a nuclear power plant what is used to change water into steam
- solar energy
- Wind energy is actually an indirect form of
- reactor vessel
- In which section of a nuclear reactor does nuclear fission occur
- natural gas
- 3 major fossil fuels: coal oil and
- insulation
- a layer of material that helps block the transfer of heat between the air inside and outside a building is called
- Mechanical energy
- In an electric power plant turbines are turned using which type of energy from steam
- flourescent light bulb
- One example of an energy efficient device
- decaying plant remains
- Coal is a solid fossil fuel formed from
- wood
- Example of a Biomass fuel
- the reserves will eventually be used up
- The result of using fossil fuels more rapidly than they are formed
- Recycling
- Energy Conservation example:
- coal
- the most plentiful fossil fuel in the US is
- fuel
- Substances that provide energy as the rusult of a chem. change