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Science Unit C Sec 3&4 Flashcards

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What is solar energy?

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Energy given off by the sun

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What are natural sources of thermal energy?

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Sun, geysers, fire, decayed material

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What 2 types of solar heating are there?

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Passive heating or active heating

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Explain passive solar heating

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This means insulating a building as much as possible and placing windows where the sun shines in. It is when a building is made to collect and distribute solar energy.

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What are some things that can let radiant energy in but not let it reflect back?

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Extra panes of glass and special wall coating

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What is Active Solar Heating

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Active solar heating systems use solar energy to heat a fluid – either liquid or air – and then transfer the solar heat directly to the interior space or to a storage system for later use

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How can solar energy be converted into energy?

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Solar panels collect the Suns energy and stores it in batteries

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What are some benefits of solar energy?

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•It doesn’t create pollution

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What is a thermostat?

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They help us live comfortably by controlling the temperature in our environment

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What is the average indoor temperature?

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20C

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How does a thermostat work?

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It has a strip of 2 metals combined. When they heat up one of the metals expands faster than the other. This makes the metal bend. The bend is measured and if changes are needed in temperature it turns up or down the heat.

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What 2 types of heating systems are there?

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Local seating systems

Central heating systems

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Explain local heating systems

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They provide heat for only one room. Fire places, stoves and space heaters are some examples.

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Explain central heating systems

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They provide heat from a single source such as a furnace. The heat transfers through a series of ducts or pipes. And comes out through the vents

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What is forces air heating?

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Air is heated by burning fuel and is blowed by a fan through ducts but goes through a filter first

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What is hot-water heating?

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What is heated in a boiler then a pump forces the air through metal radiators that warms the air. As the water cools it is returned to the boiler

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What direction does heat travel?

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From an area of high kinetic energy to low kinetic energy

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How does a freezer work?

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The refrigerant in a fridge evaporates at a very low temperature and that creates the cool air.

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What is an insulator?

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It limits the amount of heat transferred by conduction.

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Where does most heat loss occur in a home?

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35% through walls

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What are fossil fuels?

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A natural fuel such a gas from remains of fossilized organisms

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What are renewable resources?

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Resources that can be replaced.

E.g such as the Suns energy

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What are non renewable resources?

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Resources that cannot be replaced

E.g such a oil

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Where is oil & natural gas found?

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They are usually extracted from the ground by pumping

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Why do most people use fossil fuels?

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Because it is easy to access

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What are economic costs?

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The sacrifices invoked in using a material such as the price or pollution

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What are environmental costs?

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The negative effects on the environment after using the product such as pollution

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What are societal costs?

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The cost of the health care system to treating problems linked with environmental costs

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What are some alternatives for thermal energy?

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Wind energy, nuclear energy, hydro electric power, and solar energy

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What is nuclear energy?

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It uses small amounts of uranium to produce vast amounts of heat

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What is hydro electricity?

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When water turns turbines to create energy

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What is the biggest energy user?

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Industry

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Why is industry the biggest energy user

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They needing building to be lit, heated, ect

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What is congregation

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Concentration is the production of two forms of energy usually electricity and heat at the same time from one energy stores

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