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Energy Resorces
Energy Resources
Question | Answer |
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Energy to heat homes and run many devices comes from blank. | Electricity |
Electricity from power plants comes to homes through blank. | Wires |
Most vehicles get their energy from burning blank. | Fossil Fuels |
Heat from fossil fuels is used to boil water and turn into blank. | Steam |
When the steam is released it is directed to a big-pinwheel-like blank. | Turbine |
The spinning turbine turns a blank to make electricity. | Generator |
There are 2 disadvantages to fossil fuels: they are (1.) blank and they (2.) blank the enviornment. | (1.) Nonrenewable (2.) Pollute |
Fossil fuels come from blank. | Once-living things |
Fossil fuels were once blank rocks. | Sedimentary |
The worlds largest consumer of energy is blank! | The United States |
Sources of energy other than the burning of fossil fuels are called blank energy sources. | Alternative |
Hydrolectric plants use running or falling (1.) blank to spin a (2.) blank to make electricity. | (1.) Water (2.) Generator |
Earths internal heat or blank can be used to heat homes and produce electricity. | Geothermal energy |
A house can be heated when sunlight is trapped by blank or collectors. | Solar panels |
Devices that convert sunlight into electric energy are called blank. | Solar cells |
We use the suns energy every time we eat a plant because of the process of blank. | Photosynthesis |
Conserving energy means not (1.) blank what we have and using as (2.) blank as possible. | (1.) Wasting (2.) Little |
We can also use blank like water wind and solar energy. | Alternative Energy Sources |
Renewable energy from plant matter and animal wastes is called blank. | Biomass |
Reusing materials so we can save energy is called blank. | Recycling |