Energy Test Review Sheet
***This review guide is not all inclusive! This is to guide you in your studying, but anything that we have covered in class, on homework, or in the book is fair game for the test. Below is a list of vocabulary and concepts that are a good outline to begin your studying***
Where to study?
Ø Energy Notes
Ø Coal Notes
Ø Crude Oil/Natural Gas Notes
Ø Alternative Energies Notes
Ø Solar Energy Notes
Ø How Nuclear Power Works Notes
Ø Environmental Science Textbook (Sections 6.1-6.3)
Ø Homework assignments
Ø Course website information
I. Energy Notes:
VOCAB:
Energy
Work
Force
Potential Energy
Gravitational Potential
Chemical Potential
Elastic Potential
Entropy
Kinetic Energy
CONCEPTS:
Ø The difference between potential and kinetic energy
Ø The differences between the potential energies.
Ø 2 laws of energy
II. Coal/Petroleum/Natural Gas Notes:
VOCAB:
Fossil Fuel
Renewable
Non-Renewable
Strip Mining
Acid Mine Drainage
Carbonization
Black Lung
CONCEPTS:
Ø Compare Coal, Petroleum, Natural Gas
- most expensive to least expensive
- highest energy production to lowest
- most pollution to least pollution
Ø Sources of Pollution
Ø Pros/Cons of using Fossil Fuels
III. Alternative Energies
VOCAB:
Hydropower
Flow
Head
Wind
Biomass
Ethanol
Geothermal
Tidal
Wave
Hydrogen Fuel
CONCEPTS:
Ø Limitations to each type of alternative energy
Ø Advantages and disadvantages
Ø Pollution from each type (if there is any)
Ø How should we use alternative energy to solve our “energy crisis”? (Can we use solar to run Media?)
IV. Solar Energy
VOCAB:
Passive Heating
Active Heating
Photovoltaic Cells
Silicon
Solar Thermal Technology
CSP (3 types)
CONCEPTS:
Ø Use of solar for heat and electricity
Ø Limitations of solar
V. Nuclear Power
VOCAB:
Radioactive
Uranium
Fission
Control Rod
Chain Reaction
Meltdown
CONCEPTS:
Ø 3 Limitations to Nuclear Power
Ø Pros of using Nuclear Power
What questions do you have (list below…)?