Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
1. Who finds new sources of oil or
natural gas?
3. Who does energy audits to make
homes more efficient?
5. What happens when you rotate a
magnet inside a coil of wire?
7. The rising of air heated by the sun
plus the turning of the earth makes
what?
A. a geoscientist
B. a power dispatcher
C. a home energy rater
A. a home energy rater
B. an insulation worker
C. a geoscientist
A. an electrical current is generated
in the wire
B. the magnet loses its magnetism
C. nothing
A. wind
B. waves
C. warmer air
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
1. Who takes care of equipment in
an oil field?
3. Who winds wire for armatures,
electrical motors and generators?
5. What is the primary cooking fuel in
rural parts of developing countries?
7. Which of these driving habits
would reduce gasoline use?
A. a roustabout
B. a boilermaker
C. a coil builder
A. a coil builder
B. a materials scientist
C. a roustabout
A. sticks and animal dung
B. propane
C. kerosene
A. carpooling
B. using a drive up window
C. fast, jerky, "jackrabbit" starts and
stops
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
2. Who coordinates and regulates
the distribution of electricity in a
grid?
4. Who puts insulation in the walls of
a home to make it more energy
efficient?
6. What can convert the fluid motion
of wind, water or steam into rotary
motion to rotate a magnet inside a
coil of wire?
8. Which of these materials is most
effective in reducing thermal energy
transfer?
A. a power dispatcher
B. a home energy rater
C. an insulation worker
A. an insulation worker
B. a geoscientist
C. a power dispatcher
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
A. a turbine
B. a solar cell
C. a boiler
A. fiber glass insulation batts
B. window glass
C. aluminum siding
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
2. Who constructs and repairs steam
boilers in a power plant?
4. Who creates new battery
designs?
A. a boilermaker
B. a roustabout
C. a materials scientist
A. a materials scientist
B. a coil builder
C. a boilermaker
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
6. Which of these driving habits
would increase gasoline use?
A. using a drive up window
B. slow, gentle starts and stops
C. combining errands
CORRECT: A, A
8. What is any social or
environmental cost of doing
business that is not paid by the
business that creates the cost?
A. an externality
B. the product price
C. a subsidy
CORRECT: A, A
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Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
9. Which of these materials is most
effective in increasing thermal
energy transfer?
11. Which of these objects is
exhibiting kinetic energy?
13. Which of these is produced by
slowly heating wood in the absence
of oxygen?
15. Which of these is mainly the
remains of prehistoric land plants?
A. a film of water
B. fiber glass insulation batts
C. Styrofoam
A. the cellulose in a piece of wood
B. falling water turning a turbine
C. water behind a dam
A. oil and natural gas
B. charcoal
C. ashes
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
9. Which of these is an externality of
using gasoline to run cars?
A. air pollution
B. car accidents
C. traffic jams
A. oil and natural gas
B. coal
C. abiogenic oil
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
11. Which federal law bans refined
oil products (e.g. gasoline) from
being exported from the U.S. ?
A. 1975 Energy Policy and
Conservation Act
B. there is no such law
C. Energy Policy Act of 2005
13. If you drive 180 miles per week
and gas costs $2 per gallon, how
much more would it cost each year
to drive a vehicle that gets 20 mpg
than one that gets 30 mpg?
15. What is the gallons per 100 miles
for a vehicle that gets 20 miles to the
gallon?
A. 20
B. 5
C. 100
A. $6
B. $308
C. $624
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
10. Which of these is a system with
potential energy?
12. What energy source moves
water from a low place to a high
place, increasing the water's
potential energy?
14. Which of these is mainly the
remains of prehistoric algae and
plankton?
16. Which of these resources are
renewable over human time scales?
A. water behind a dam CORRECT
B. an engine turning the wheels of a
car
C. wind turning the blades of a wind
mill
A. a waterfall
B. the sun CORRECT
C. rainfall
A. coal
B. oil and natural gas CORRECT
C. charcoal
A. coal
B. trees
C. oil
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
14. Using the formula: gas price =
.28 x price per barrel + 61 cents,
estimate the cost of gas at the pump
when oil is at $100 per barrel.
10. Which federal law bans crude oil
from being exported from the U.S.?
12. Who are the top three oil
exporting countries?
A. 1975 Energy Policy and
Conservation Act CORRECT
B. 2007 Energy Independence and
Security Act
C. there is no such law
A. Phiippines, Greece and Peru
B. Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran
CORRECT
C. Venezuela, Canada and Mexico
A. $2.80
B. $3.41 CORRECT
C. $2.19
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
16. What is the relationship between
energy and matter?
A. f=ma
B. e=mc2
C. fa=-fb
CORRECT: B, B
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
17. Which of these resources is only
renewable over geologic time?
19. What does a refinery do with
crude oil to get it to separate into
different fractions to make fuel?
21. What units are used for
measuring coal?
23. What units are used for
measuring electricity?
A. gallons or barrels
B. kilowatt hours
C. tons CORRECT
A. tons
B. gallons or barrels
C. kilowatt-hours
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
21. Whose website is likely to have
the most complete, reliable and
unbiased information on energy?
23. Which of these generates
electric current by passing across
blades or turbines that rotate a
magnet inside a coil of wire?
A. trees
B. coal
C. wind
A. it adds chemicals to it
B. it forces it through different filters
C. it heats it up
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
17. Which of these is part of a
centralized power distribution
system?
19. What is the relationship between
force and acceleration?
A. a solar panel on a house
B. a coal-fired power plant
C. a back up generator
A. e=mc2
B. f=ma
C. fa=-fb
A. the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining
Institute
B. the Sierra Club
C. the U.S. Energy Information
Agency
A. a solar panel
B. a battery
C. wind or flowing water
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: C, B
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
18. What is the most common
renewable energy source used by
power plants in the northwest?
20. What units are used for
measuring crude oil or petroleum?
22. What units are used for
measuring natural gas?
24. What units are used for
measuring energy?
A. cubic feet
B. tons
C. barrels
A. tons
B. gallons or barrels
C. cubic feet
A. liters, gallons, barrels or cubic
feet
B. kilograms, lbs or tons
C. joules, Btus, kilowatthours or
calories
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
18. What is the relationship between
action and reaction?
20. Which law accounts for why
motors get hot?
22. Which of these follows from the
1st law of thermodynamics?
A. f=ma
B. fa=-fb
C. e=mc2
A. 1st law of thermodynamics
B. 1st law of motion
C. 2nd law of thermodynamics
A. a perpetual motion machine can
only occur under certain conditions
B. it is just a matter of time before
engineers invent a perpetual motion
machine
C. a perpetual motion machine is
impossible
A. wind
B. hydroelectric
C. biomass
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
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24. Which of these generates
electric current by absorbing light
which causes electrons to jump from
one material to another?
A. wind or flowing water
B. a battery
C. a photovoltaic solar panel
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
25. Which are the major coal mining
states in the U.S.?
27. What is a "food mile"?
29. What is the most common
renewable energy source used by
power plants in the southeast?
31. One kilowatt-hour (kWh) is equal
to 3.6 million joules. How many
joules are in half a kWh?
A. solar
b. biomass
C. wind
A. 3.6 million
B. 3.412 million
C. 1.8 million
A. Georgia, Florida and Louisiana
B. Washington, Oregon and
Minnesota
C. Wyoming, West Virginia and
Kentucky
A. the distance a tractor travels for
all phases of a crop's production
B. the distance a person can walk
using the calories in a food item
C. the distance food travels from
where it is grown to where it is eaten
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
29. Whose website is likely to have
the most complete, reliable and
unbiased information on energy
resources?
31. Where is spent nuclear fuel
waste from nuclear power plants
currently stored?
A. nuclear
B. coal
C. wind
A. the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining
Institute
B. the U.S. Energy Information
Agency
C. the Sierra Club
A. at Yucca Mountain in Nevada
B. at five long-term waste disposal
sites throughout the U.S.
C. in sealed casks at the power
plants where it is produced
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 6-8- Energy
Grades 6-8- Energy
26. Where are the major oil reserves
in the U.S.?
28. What is the most common
renewable energy source used by
power plants in the midwest?
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25. Which of these generates
electric current by setting up a
chemical gradient?
A. a photovoltaic solar panel
B. coal, natural gas or nuclear power
C. a battery
27. Which form of energy used for
electricity received the most in
federal subsidies in 2010?
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30. What is the electrical grid?
A. Wyoming, West Virginia and
Kentucky
B. New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey
C. Texas, Alaska and North Dakota
A. wind
B. solar
C. biomass
A. an interconnected network for
delivering electricity from suppliers to
consumers
B. the structure that supports a solar
panel on the roof of a house
C. a mesh attached to a house to
dissipate a lightning strike
Grades 9-12- Energy
Grades 9-12- Energy
26. Where is spent nuclear fuel
waste from nuclear power plants
currently stored?
A. at Yucca Mountain in Nevada
B. at five long-term waste disposal
sites throughout the U.S.
C. in sealed casks at the power
plants where it is produced
CORRECT: C, C
28. Which form of U.S. energy
producation has experienced the
greatest growth in recent years?
A. wind
B. natural gas and petroleum
C. geothermal
CORRECT: A, A
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30. Which federal agency manages
the U.S. nuclear infrastructure and
administers U.S. energy policy?
A. the Department of Energy (DoE)
B. the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
C. the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
CORRECT: A, A
Energy Grades 6-12
EARTH QUEST
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EARTH QUEST
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EARTH QUEST
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EARTH QUEST
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EARTH QUEST
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EARTH QUEST
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EARTH QUEST
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