Across
- 4. A spinning turbine in the water that generates electricity.
- 5. The number one killer of birds in the world.
- 8. The process of splitting atoms to harness the energy from it breaking apart.
- 11. The fossil fuel that is used to heat many homes in the US.
- 14. An energy source that is finite and has a set amount.
- 16. 235 and 238 are different isotopes of this element.
- 17. A "potentially renewable" energy source
- 19. Nonrenewable energy sources that we use in society to generate electricity, power cars, etc.
Down
- 1. An energy source that can never run out.
- 2. Radioactive waste is a potential hazard of this energy-rich source
- 3. Heat from the Earth
- 6. A city in Japan that had a nuclear power plant catastrophe in 2011.
- 7. Has the potential to power the world, but is currently less than one percent of energy.
- 9. Nonrenewable energy sources release this as a result of combustion.
- 10. A city in Ukraine that suffered the worst ever nuclear power plant meltdown in 1986.
- 12. The result of dead plants and trees from 300 million years ago.
- 13. The main fuel used for transportation in our modern day society.
- 15. The subatomic particle that splits up atoms.
- 18. A spinning turbine from the unevenly heated air generates electricity.