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Climate Change
Non- renewable
Renewable
Waste
Cites
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Double Jeopardy
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Our planet absorbs this percentage of solar
radiation.
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What is 70?
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Three green house gases that contribute to global
warming.
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What is CO2, N2O, CH4, water vapor, CFCs?
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Our current concentration of CO2 in the
atmosphere.
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What is 392 ppm?
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A mass of warm water in the Pacific that moves to
the California coast around Christmas time.
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What is El Nino?
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Presently, the main cause of sea level rise.
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What is thermal expansion?
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The National Petroleum Reserve is located in this
state.
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What is Alaska?
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Fossil fuels are produced only when organic
material is decomposed in this type of non
oxygenated environment.
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What is anaerobic?
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A fossil fuel that was formed when peat
decomposes under heat and pressure.
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What is coal?
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This type of coal production.
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What is strip mining?
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The process of splitting uranium to release
energy.
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What is nuclear fission?
Fission fragment
Neutron
Free neutrons
Energy
Nucleus of uranium
Proton
Fission fragment
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Iceland's two main renewable sources of fuel.
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What hydroelectric and geothermal?
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Energy derived from recent plant and animal
matter.
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What is biomass energy (biopower or biofuels)?
sugar cane
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The most abundant renewable energy resource in
Hawaii.
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What is Waste to Energy (garbage) (399 gw)?

• Others
• Wind (250 gw)
• Geothermal (168 gw)
• Solar (130 gw)
• Hydroelectric (70 gw)
• Biofuels (4.9 gw)
• Ocean (waves, tides)

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A process of pumping cold water to the surface
for energy or to cool buildings.
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What is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)?
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The most abundant element in the universe that
can be used to make energy.
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What is Hydrogen (H)?
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Non-liquid waste that comes from homes,
institutions and small businesses.
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What is Municipal Solid Waste?
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Landfill gas is produced by this.
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What is anaerobic bacteria?
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A method for long-term disposal of hazardous
waste.
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What is deep-well injection?
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Residents were evacuated from this NY
neighborhood in 1978 when it was discovered that
toxic chemical were buried there.
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What is the Love Canal (Niagara Falls, NY)?
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Lead, chromium, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium
found in e-waste are types of these.
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What are heavy metals?
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The spread of low-density urban or suburban
development outward from an urban center.
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What is sprawl?
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A form of transportation that uses less energy
per passenger mile.
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What are trains, in particular, light rail?
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Businesses arrayed in a long strip along a
roadway.
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What is uncentered commercial strip development?
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Two main components of sprawl.
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What is human population growth (less jobs in
rural farming areas thus people move to the city
for jobs), and per capital land consumption
(people desire more space)?
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A deep underground facility in Yucca Mountain, NV
will begin receiving this type of waste by 2017.
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What is nuclear/radioactive waste?