Energy Vocab

5. the ground is blasted so that ores near earth's surface can be removed and carried to refineries to extract the minerals
10. fracking
11. a nuclear reaction in which a heavy nucleus splits spontaneously or on impact with another particle, with the release of energy.
12. this is the earth's cleanest burning fossil fuel
13. generates heat
14. a type of renewable energy taken from the Earth's core
15. when a neutron slams into a larger atom, forcing it to excite and split into two smaller atoms

1. contaminated drinking water, disrupted growth and reproduction of aquatic plants and animals, and the corroding effects of the acid on parts of infrastructures such as bridges.
2. the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement.
3. the extraction of rocks, minerals and industrial materials, other than coal, oil and gas, from the earth by developing entries
4. a form of renewable energy that uses the power of moving water to generate electricity.
6. made from dead plants and animals
7. mostly used for transportation
8. the united states has more of this than any other fossil fuel resource
9. the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere