Three Weeks Test Review

 

Characteristics of renewable and nonrenewable resources

 

Pros and Cons of hydropower.

 

Ways to save energy in an existing building.

 Pros and cons of wind power.

 

 Environmental cost of renewable energy.

Pros and Cons of solar energy.

 

Pros and cons of damming rivers.

 

Solar energy in the biosphere.

 

What method would be effective in reducing the amount of water waste on farms for crops?

 

Desalinization process

 

 

What is:

Exxon Valdez

Santa Barbara

Chernobyl

Three Mile Island

Gaia Hypothesis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Water use % (graph or chart)

 

 

The level below which a potentially renewable resource can be used without reducing its available supply throughout the world or in a particular area:

 

Using the chart above, what energy source has the least environmental cost?

 

% of renewable energy sources used in the US.

 

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Properties of fuel cell vehicles.

 

Waste generated by renewable energy

 

 

 

Relative abundance of fossil fuels (graph)

 

First Law of Thermodynamics

 

Law of Conservation of Matter?

 

Methods for creating environmentally sustainable economies?

 

Green Design

 

 

Sun’s energy

 

 

 

Human impact on Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultural Eutrophication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is another term for “drainage basin”

 

 

 

 

 

% of water sources on earth (graph or chart)