WorksheetsAPES Unit 6 Vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
A brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often cut out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening.
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A soft brown coal showing traces of plant structure, intermediate between bituminous coal and peat.
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Black coal having a relatively high volatile content. It burns with a characteristically bright smoky flame.
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The highest rank of coal. It is a hard, brittle, and black lustrous coal, often referred to as hard coal, containing a high percentage of fixed carbon and a low percentage of volatile matter
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Unrefined petroleum
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The generation of electricity and other energy jointly, especially the utilization of the steam left over from electricity generation to produce heat.
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A drilling method used to extract petroleum or natural gas from deep in the Earth.
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A light isotope of __________ of mass number 235 that constitutes less than one percent of natural ____________
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The location of an accident in 1979 in a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
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A place in Ukraine where a nuclear power plant - a generator powered by a nuclear reactor - underwent a meltdown in 1986
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The ____________ Daiichi nuclear disaster was a 2011 nuclear accident at the ____________ Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, _______________ Prefecture, Japan.
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The interval of time required for one-half of the atomic nuclei of a radioactive sample to decay.
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A method for generating electric power by using solar cells to convert energy from the sun into a flow of electrons
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Power produced by the surge of ocean waters during the rise and fall of tides
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Energy that is heat within the earth
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