1. Ch. 17 Review Game
Nonrenewable Energy

2. What is the ability to do work or cause a change?

3. Work

4. Which fossil fuel is formed from the remains of marine animals?

5. oil

6. A wave crashing on the beach is an example of what form of energy?

7. kinetic

8. A stretched rubber band is an example of what form of energy?

9. potential

10. When coal deposits are buried deep, deep below the surface, which method of coal mining will most likely be used?

11. Subsurface

12. What energy is associated with the motion AND position of an object

13. mechanical

14. Besides the possibility of a catastrophic accident, what is a disadvantage of nuclear power?

15. Disposal of radioactive waste
Expensive to build and maintain

16. What energy is produced when the atoms and molecules in an object move around and collide with one another?

17. Thermal

18. Is electricity a primary or secondary source of energy?

19. secondary

20. What form of energy travels through space in the form of waves?

21. Electromagnetic

22. What is the world’s most abundant fossil fuel?

23. Coal

24. What form of energy is food and fuel an example of?

25. chemical

26. What energy is released when atoms are broken apart?

27. nuclear

28. List 2 advantages of using coal over oil or natural gas.

29. Cheap
Abundant
Easy to transport
Doesn’t require much processing

30. List 2 unique drawbacks of alternative fuels such as oil sands, oil shale, and methane hydrate.
Unique means drawbacks that are NOT associated with coal, oil, and natural gas

31. They are expensive to extract and process
They provide less net energy

32. When a match is lit, chemical and kinetic energy are transformed into what 2 forms of energy?

33. Electromagnetic, thermal

34. The process in which a fuel burns because it combines rapidly with oxygen

35. Combustion

36. What type of environment is required in order for the remains of living things to be turned into fossil fuels?

37. Little oxygen

38. Which fossil fuel is formed from the remains of ancient plants, specifically peat?

39. Coal

40. What is an advantage of nuclear power?

41. Do not produce air pollution
Nuclear power plants are safer for workers than coal-fired power plants

42. Shaking a soda prior to removing the cap is similar to which method of drilling for oil, primary extraction or secondary extraction?

43. Secondary

44. Of the three fossil fuels, which is the least polluting?

45. Natural gas

46. Which alternative fossil fuel works similar to how a sponge soaks up water?

47. Oil shale

48. Sequence the following steps in the order in which they occur during the process of producing electricity from nuclear energy.
Steam is produced
Steam changed to liquid
Nuclear fission takes place
Steam turns a turbine to generate electricity

49. 3, 1, 4, 2

50. When strip mining exposes many new rock surfaces at once, what occurs?

51. Acid drainage

52. The process of nuclear fusion brings two hydrogen nuclei together to release energy. Why is this method not used to generate electricity in nuclear power plants?

53. It requires very high heat

54. What is the “fuel” used in nuclear power plants?

55. Uranium 235

56. What object(s) in the reactor vessel of a nuclear power plant serve to prevent a nuclear meltdown?

57. Control rods

58. What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source of energy?

59. A primary comes from nature whereas a secondary relies on a primary source

60. In a nuclear power plant, which process is used to generate electricity?

61. Nuclear fission

62. Describe/sketch what happens in nuclear fission

63. A neutron collides with a Uranium 235 atom breaking it into a Barium and Krypton atom releasing energy and 2-3 neutrons

64. What is the compound that is derived from oil and used to make products including plastic?

65. petrochemicals

66. True or False: In developing nations, most energy use is to provide basic necessities of daily living.

67. True

68. True or False: Coal is used to generate half of the electricity in the United States.

69. True