APES Friedland and Relyea Ch. 12 Flashcards
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| 317119196 | Nonrenewable | that can not be renewed | |
| 317119197 | Fossil Fuels | a nonrenewable energy resource that forms in the Earth's crust for millions of years | |
| 317119198 | Nuclear Fuels | derived from radioactive materials that give off energy | |
| 317119199 | Commercial Energy Sources | are bought and sold like coal | |
| 317119200 | Subsistence Energy Sources | those gathered by individuals for their own immediate needs | |
| 317119201 | Energy Carrier | moves energy in a usable form from one place to another, like electricity or hydrogen | |
| 317119202 | Turbine | rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate | |
| 317119203 | Electrical Grid | a network of interconnected transmission lines that joins power plants together and links them with end users of electricity | |
| 317125461 | Combined Cycle | a power plant that uses both exhaust gases and steam turbines to generate electricity | |
| 317125462 | Capacity | the maximum production possible | |
| 317125463 | Capacity Factor | fraction of the actual energy produced in a given period to the hypothetical max power | |
| 317125464 | Cogeneration | production of two useful forms of energy, such as high-temperature heat or steam and electricity, from the same fuel source | |
| 317125465 | Coal | is solid fuel formed primarily from the remains of trees, ferns, and other plant materials that were preserved 280 million to 360 million years ago | |
| 318052620 | Petroleum | an oily, dark-colored, flammable liquid found in the earth, consisting mainly of a mixture of various hydrocarbons | |
| 318052621 | Crude Oil | petroleum as it comes out of the ground and before it has been refined or processed into useful products | |
| 318052622 | Oil Sands | mixtures of clay and sand combined with water and varying amounts of a black, highly viscous tar known as bitumen | |
| 318052623 | Bitumen | is a degraded type of petroleum deposit is not capped with nonporous rock | |
| 318052624 | CTL | 'coal-to-liquid,' converting solid coal into a liquid fuel | |
| 318052625 | Energy Intensity | is the relationship between energy consumption and growth in gross domestic product (GDP), and it is an important factor that affects changes in energy consumption over time. | |
| 318052626 | Hubbert Curve | projection of the point at which world oil production would reach a maximum and a point at which we would run out of oil | |
| 318052627 | Peak Oil | the point when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached and at which the rate of production continues to decline | |
| 318052628 | Fission | a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy | |
| 318052629 | Fuel Rods | uranium rod that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor | |
| 318052630 | Control Rods | neutron-absorbing rods that help control the reaction by limiting the number of free neutrons | |
| 318052631 | Radioactive Waste | useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed | |
| 318052632 | Becquerel | measures the rate at which a sample of radioactive material decays | |
| 318052633 | Curie | a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second | |
| 318052634 | Nuclear Fission | a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy |