Energy Internet Scavenger Hunt

Use the internet to get a burst of energy information.

1. What are fossil fuels?

And renewables?

Check your definitions at www.energy.ca.gov/glossary

2. What percent of the world’s energy do fossil fuels supply?

www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/energy/intro/intro_02.cfm

(Go to fossil fuel eco-stat under more about this topic.)

3. Name one reason gas prices are so high.

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ask/faq.asp

4. List three advantages of nuclear energy.

www.nucleartourist.com/basics/why.htm

5. According to the graph at http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/uses_eletrical.asp which fuel is used to produce most of our electricity?

And what is the fastest growing fuel?

6. Visit Hoover Dam, a great example of hydropower, and find out how much electricity it produces.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy_fungames/energyant_trips/trip_hooverdam.html

7. Find out what brought colonists to America at http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/movieroom/index.html and click on kid wind video.

8. What does a lineworker do?

http://iec.electricuniverse.com/flash/eu/education/louie/life/index.html

Check out “When you grow up, what would you like to be?”

9. Could you power your TV or computer with a bicycle generator?

Go to http://science.howstuffworks.com/question658.htm

10. How many energy students does it take to change a light bulb?

Check your answer at http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy_fungames/riddles/index.html