Chapter 25 Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 2. Production of two unstable forms of energy at the same time from the same process, which can conserve resources and generate income
- 6. Involves global management of Earth's natural resources to ensure that current and future energy needs will be met without harming the environment
- 8. Black coal having a relatively high volatile content
- 9. Nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei of low atomic number fuse to form a heavier nucleus with the release of energy.
- 10. Soft brownish coal showing traces of plant structure, intermediate between bituminous coal and peat
- 13. A type of conservation in which the amount of work produced is compared to the amount of energy used
- 15. Thin, transparent wafer that converts sunlight into electrical energy and is made up of two layers of two types of silicon
Down
- 1. Coal of a hard variety that contains relatively pure carbon and burns with little flame and smoke
- 3. Energy produced by Earth's naturally occurring heat, steam, and hot water
- 4. Fuels derived from living things; renewable resources
- 5. Power generated by converting the energy of free-falling water to electricity
- 7. The process in which a heavy nucleus divides to form smaller nuclei and one or two neutrons and produces a large amount of energy
- 11. Light, spongy, organic fossil fuel derived from moss and other bog plants
- 12. Molecules with hydrogen and carbon bonds only
- 14. Nonrenewable energy resources formed over geological time from the compression and partial decomposition of organisms that lived millions of years ago