Thermal Energy & Fossil Fuels {Topics 7 & 8}

Invisible gas that is a product of respiration and burning

• greenhouse gas

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

• carbon monoxide

Substances formed from the soft parts of plants and animals over millions of years and trapped inside the Earth

• energy resource

• non-renewable resource

• thermal energy mover

• fossil fuels

liquids that evaporate easily at low temperatures

• thermal energy mover

• liquid gases

• refrigerant

• renewable resources

a method of energy conservation by which waste heat or energy from one industry is used by another industry

• cogeneration

• coexist

• renewable resource

• solar collector

the gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere

• thermal energy mover

• global warming

• greenhouse gases

• there's no such thing

gases that result from the burning of fossil fuels or wood, that prevent heat from leaving the atmosphere

• smoke

• carbon dioxide

• greenhouse gases

• global warming

resources that take millions of years to form

• greenhouse gases

• fossil fuels

• cogeneration

• non-renewable resource

Global warming is a result of a build up of greenhouse gases that do not allow heat to escape out of the earth's atmosphere.

• true

• false

Luckily, there are enough fossil fuels buried in the ground that we never need to worry about running out.

• true

• false

A windmill is a type of turbine.

• true

• false