Environmental Science Ch. 17 and 18 Review

Most of the energy used in the _____ is used for industrial purposes.

• United States
• world

• Europe

• China

_____ forms from the remains of plants that lived in swamps hundreds of millions of years ago were repeatedly covered with sediment and the added weight of the layers of sediment created heat and pressure to cause coal to form.

• Petroleum

• Natural gas

• Uranium

• Coal

One of the major advantages of _____ is its versatility of uses.

• tidal power

• ocean thermal energy conversion

• fossil fuels

• uranium

Which of the following do not produce air pollution?

• burning of wood

• coal-fired power plants

• oil-fired power plants

• nuclear power plants

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Nuclear fusion involves combining atomic _____.

• protons
• electrons
• neutrons
• nuclei

Sunlight falls on a semiconductor, causing it to release _____ in photovoltaic cells.

• protons
• electrons
• neutrons
• nuclei

The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred in _____,

• United States

• Japan

• Russia

• Ukraine

Solar cells uses _____ to produce electricity.

• UV rays

• sunlight
• thermal energy

• hydrogen

Fuel cells uses _____ to produce electricity.

• fossil fuels

• sunlight
• thermal energy

• hydrogen

The turbine spins because of the _____ released from boiling water.

• steam

• oxygen

• thermal energy

• hydrogen