QUIZ 1 Flashcards
BCM means
Billion Cubic Meters
What development or idea initialized the industrial revolution
Steam engine
The basic energy unit in SI
Joule
BTU means
British thermal units
Most of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere came from
Transportation
General term for energy sources from fossil fuels
Non-renewable resources
The domestic energy sector includes both offices and ——-
houses
In the global energy balance equation, the losses may either be technical losses and
administrative
Energy efficiency is the ratio of the ____ output energy over the input energy
desired
Greenhouse gases are generally
naturally occurring gasses
The most common nuclear fuels is made up of
uranium
Normal rain water has a pH of
5.6
Nuclear energy is a type of _____ energy
Potential
The three main energy sources are grouped together and considered as the
global primary energy reserves
The basic unit of power in SI is
watt
In the global energy balance equation, the sources are energy sources coming from ___ the country
within
World’s top coal producing country
China
What is the first city that had electricity
New York City
The most abundant hydrocarbon in natural gas is
Methane
The most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is
Carbon dioxide
