Unit 8 Energy Use, Impacts, and Alternatives
Across
- 5. (Two Words) using the movement of tidal water to generate electricity
- 9. (Two Words) an expression of how much of the energy put into a system actually does useful work
- 10. (Two Words) energy that is produced from biomass material
- 13. (Two Words) an icelike solid that consists of molecules of methane within a crystal network of water molecules
- 16. (Three Words) uses technology to collect, move, and store heat derived from the sun
- 20. (Two Words) heat produced deep beneath Earth’s surface by high pressure combined with the breakdown of radioactive elements
- 23. (Four Words) a process that converts the thermal energy in ocean water to electrical energy that people can use
- 24. (Three Words) a heat-absorbing device, generally consisting of a black metal plate in a flat box with a glass cover
Down
- 1. (Three Words) designing a building to collect, store, and distribute the sun’s energy naturally
- 2. (Two Words) energy from sources that are nearly always available or are replaced in a relatively short time
- 3. energy made available by the flow of an electric charge
- 4. (Two Words) energy that an object has because of its position or shape
- 6. (Three Words) a technology that uses mirrors to focus sunlight in order to generate electricity
- 7. (Two Words) the practice of reducing energy use
- 8. (Two Words) the energy that an object has due to its motion
- 11. (Four Words) a system that takes advantage of the fact that the temperature of soil a few feet underground stays about the same all year
- 12. using the kinetic energy of moving water to turn turbines and generate electricity
- 14. (Two Words) energy from sources that cannot be replaced
- 15. (Two Words) a device used to generate electricity using hydrogen and oxygen
- 17. liquid fuels from biomass sources
- 18. (Two Words) a device that converts the wind’s kinetic energy into electrical energy
- 19. a dark, liquid fossil fuel made up mostly of hydrocarbons
- 21. the process in which a fuel burns because it combines rapidly with oxygen
- 22. (Two Words) a device in which solar energy is converted directly into electricity
- 25. the ability to do work or cause a change