1. Energy Resources Ch. 9 Bingo
Mrs. Hill
Eighth Grade Science

2. Any natural substance, organism, or energy form that living things use
Natural Resource

3. Any natural resource that can be used and replaced over a relatively short time
Renewable

4. A natural resource that cannot be replaced or that can be replaced only over thousands or millions of years
Nonrenewable

5. The process by which used or discarded materials are treated for reuse
Recycling

6. Natural resources that humans use to produce energy
Energy Resources

7. Nonrenewable energy resources that form in the Earth’s crust over millions of years from the buried remains of once-living organisms
Fossil Fuels

8. An oily mixture of flammable organic compounds from which liquid fossil fuels and other products, such as as asphalt, are separated; also known as crude oil
Petroleum

9. Gaseous fossil fuels that are commonly used for heating and generating electricity
Natural Gas

10. A solid fossil fuel formed underground from buried, decomposed plant material
Coal

11. A process in which rock and soil are stripped from the Earth’s surface to expose the underlying materials to be mined
Strip mining

12. Rain or snow that has a high acid content due to air pollutants
Acid rain

13. A photochemical fog produced by the reaction of sunlight and air pollutants
Smog

14. The last stage in the process of coal formation after bituminous coal; it is ninety percent carbon
Anthracite

15. The second stage in the process of coal formation, in which sediment buries the peat and increases the pressure and intensity; seventy percent carbon
Lignite

16. The third stage in the process of coal formation, in which the pressure and intensity increase and the lignite is changed; eighty percent carbon
Bituminous

17. An alternative source of energy that comes from the nuclei of atoms
Nuclear Energy

18. A process in which the nuclei of radioactive elements are split and energy is released
Fission

19. Energy from the Sun
solar energy

20. Energy in wind
wind energy

21. Technologically updated windmills that are often used in clusters on wind farms and used to produce energy
Wind turbines

22. Electricity produced by falling water
Hydroelectric energy

23. Organic matter that contains stored energy
Biomass energy

24. Alcohol which is burned as a fuel or mixed with gasoline to make a fuel mixture
gasohol

25. Energy produced by heat within the Earth’s crust
Geothermal Energy

26. The main component of natural gas
                                                                                           
methane

27. Quiz Questions
Look at the slides for this Power Point. The slides with a marks the words that will be on the quiz. It will be a matching quiz. You will need to match the word with the defintion.
Bonus Question: Name as many of the eight alternative resources we have studied.