Home Efficiency Objectives

The importance of home efficiency service checks: they ensure optimal energy usage.

• They increase energy consumption

• They ensure optimal energy usage

• They cause unnecessary expenses

• They have no impact

Identify one method of improving home efficiency.

• Increasing insulation

• Using incandescent bulbs

• Washing windows often

• Lawn mowing frequently

Home efficiency can be checked by which of the following means?

• Conducting an energy audit

• Using thermal imaging

• Analyzing utility bills

• All of the above

Why is home efficiency important?

• Global warming

• Smog

• Ozone layer depletion

• All of the above.

Home efficiency can help reduce the use of fossil fuels such as ______.

• oil, gas, coal.

• solar energy.

• wind energy.

• hydropower.

True or False: Being more energy efficient helps with the threat of global warming, smog, and ozone layer depletion, and also helps families financially.

• True

• False

What can gas leaks do to energy costs?

• Decrease energy costs

• Increase energy costs

• Have no effect on energy costs

• Both A and B.

Small gas leaks can be difficult to detect because

• they produce little audible noise and faint odor

• they are usually visible to the eye

• they create a large flame immediately

• they cause immediate explosion risks

What is a potential danger of gas leaks to people and pets?

• They can cause backdrafting

• They can increase the risk of fire and explosion

• They can reduce the risk of fire

• They are harmless

Gas leaks should be ______ to reduce risk.

• sealed

• monitored

• ventilated

• ignored