What is coal used for to produce energy?
A) Heating homes
B) Making paper
How do we get oil from the ground?
A) Drilling.
B) Extraction from the water.
Where is natural found?
A) Natural gas is found underground.
B) Only in volcanic explosions.
Which fossil fuel is often used to fuel cars and trucks?
Wood.
Gasoline.
What do we call the remains of ancient plants and animals that are turned into energy?
Fossil fuels.
Biofuel.
How is electricity generated from coal?
Lighting coal on fire
Burning coal to create steam that turns a turbine
How do fossil fuels contribute to air pollution?
They release pollutants into the air, sometimes toxic.
They make the air smell differently and kill trees.
Which type of energy creates more contamination?
Nonrenewable energy.
Renewable energy.
Why is it important to find other sources of energy besides fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels will eventually run out and cause pollution
Fossil fuels are cheap
What happens in a hydroelectric power plant?
Potential energy turns into electricity.
Kinetic energy turns into electricity.
Hydropower plants usually use water from:
a lake.
a river.
Paraguay generates electricity through
coal.
hydropower.
In wind energy, __________________ energy is transformed into electrical energy.
Chemical.
Nuclear.
Potential.
Kinetic.
Geothermal power is:
A renewable energy using water and wind.
A renewable energy using heat from the Earth.
True or False: Geothermal energy is used to create electricity in Paraguay.
False.
True.
This is:
Fossil fuel.
Geothermal energy.
