The following questions should be answered using APA format with an in text citation for each response.
Please use the uploaded textbook for the majority of the questions.
Laposata, M. & Withgott, J., (2012). Essential Environment. The Science Behind the Stories. (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River NJ. Pearson Education.
- What is the difference between a renewable energy and a nonrenewable energy source?
- How can a scientist determine the net energy available in a fossil fuel deposit?
- What are the three fossil fuels upon which humans rely?
- From what specific types of organisms do each of the three fuels listed in number three come?
- What countries are the primary producers of each of the fuels listed in number three? What countries are the largest consumers of those fuels?
- What is the difference between primary and secondary extraction of fossil fuel deposits?
- What are some advantages and disadvantages of offshore drilling?
- Describe two ways that developed nations are trying to make their use of fossil fuels more efficient
- Name one advantage and one disadvantage to nuclear power.
- How does the knowledge that the global supply of fossil fuels is quickly dwindling affect your day to day activities with regard to fossil fuel use?
- What are the differences between renewable and clean energy sources?
- Why is the combustion of biomass considered to add no net gain in atmospheric carbon dioxide?
- When can biomass use as an energy source become nonrenewable?
- What is cofiring? Discuss advantages and disadvantages to cofiring as a means to generate electricity.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of growing corn for use in ethanol production.
- Name and describe the three major approaches to using hydropower to generate electricity.
- How can solar radiation be used passively?
- Describe the costs and benefits of using photovoltaic cells for the generation of electricity.
- What are some of the associated problems with harvesting wind energy?
- What are hydrogen fuel cells? Why are they thought to be an important storage unit for renewable energy?
- Name and describe the four main categories of waste discussed in this unit.
- What is the waste stream?
- What is the primary purpose of an industrial ecologist?
- What types of wastes are classified as hazardous?
- Why is illegal dumping of hazardous waste common?
- What is ewaste and why are some organizations lobbying that ewaste should be classified as hazardous waste?
- What are some of the benefits and costs of incinerating waste before putting it into a landfill?
- List and describe each of the three R’s discussed in this topic.
- Name an action that you can take for each of the three R’s described in #8.
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