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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is something that prevents heat or electricity from passing through it?
Insulator
Conductor
Heat transfer
Conduction
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is something that allows heat or electricity to flow though it?
Insulator
Conduction
Thermal equilibrium
Conductor
- 3. Multiple Choice
The transfer of heat through a vacuum (empty space) using electromagnetic waves
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
- 4. Multiple Choice
The transfer of heat through movement of fluids
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
- 5. Multiple Choice
The transfer of heat through a medium (material) by direct contact of molecules
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
- 6. Multiple Choice
How does heat move?
From cold to hot
From hot to cold
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is the concept in which two objects in contact with each other transfer heat until they are equal?
Thermal equilibrium
Thermal energy
Thermal equality
Thermal heat
- 8. Multiple ChoiceSome power plants pump water down deep holes into hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth’s surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource?
Biomass
Wind
Solar energy
Geothermal energy
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat characteristic do all renewable resources share?Produced by waste productsForm underground from dead organisms.Replaced in a short period of timeAllow energy to pass through them easily
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhy is burning fossil fuels harmful?
Then we won't have any fossil fuels if we burn them all.
They can get extremely hot.
They pollute the air we breathe in.
This would destroy fossils.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What happens to fossil fuels to create electricity?
They are stored
They are burned
They are melted
They are frozen
- 12. Multiple Choice
What does "clean" mean for energy sources?
Not dirty
Does not create pollution
Creates pollution
Smells good
- 13. Categorize
Classify the following energy resources as RENEWABLE or NONRENEWABLE.
(a) Renewable , (b) NonrenewableSolar
Wind
Hydropower
Geothermal
Biomass
Coal
Oil
Natural gas
Nuclear
- 14. Multiple Choice
Choose two ADVANTAGES of wind energy.
Clean and renewable
Harms migratory birds
Cost effective
Expensive
- 15. Multiple Choice
Choose two DISADVANTAGES of nuclear energy.
Clean and renewable
Produces radioactive waster
Cost effective
Expensive
- 16. Multiple Choice
Choose two ADVANTAGES of natural gas.
Domestic availability
Does not pollute
Expensive
Established infrastructure
- 17. Multiple Choice
Choose two DISADVANTAGES of hydropower.
Domestic availability
Large environmental impact
Expensive
Established infrastructure
- 18. Multiple Choice
Choose two DISADVANTAGES of solar power.
Domestic availability
Causes pollution
High cost to store energy
Amount of sunlight varies
- 19. Multiple Choice
What type of material can be used as biomass?
Sawdust
Hydrogen
Animal waste
Plant waste
- 20. Reorder
Most of the energy resources we covered in class follow these same steps, with a few exceptions.
Energy resource is burned
Steam
Turning of turbine
Turning of generator
Electricity
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