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EU3. Fossil Fuels
Chapter 3 { Energy Use Contents } Next time you look at a blade of grass, think about this: without green plants none of us would survive. In some cases, we eat plants directly to get the energy that is stored in them. In other cases, cows or pigs eat the plants, store the energy […]
EU2.2. Using Electricity to Do Work
{ Energy Use Contents } { All GSS Books } In the Lab Investigation “Doing Work to Create Electricity,” you were generating electricity by moving a coil of wire near a magnet or moving the magnet near the coil. The generator transforms kinetic energy (energy of motion) into electrical energy. Do you think you can […]
EU2.1. Doing Work to Create Electricity
{ Energy Use Contents } { All GSS Books } Use magnets and coils of wire to investigate what kind of responses you can get from an electric meter. Your challenge is to arrange and rearrange the magnets and wires to generate as much electrical output as you can. Materials magnet wire (24 gauge, 3 […]
EU2. Energy Basics
Chapter 2 { Energy Use Contents } In order to make intelligent choices about energy it’s important to understand what energy is. Surprisingly, energy is not easy to define; and you are likely to find different definitions in different textbooks. A useful definition for energy is “that which makes things happen.” Can you see energy? […]
EU1. How People Use Energy
Chapter 1 { Energy Use Contents } Without energy, nothing happens. With energy, things start happening. An intricate web of energy connects everything. The sound of rain on the leaves, the sound of a waterfall, and the sound of a rock concert are all related. Here’s how . . . The Sun shines on oceans, […]
Bibliography for Energy Use
{ Energy Use Contents } { All GSS Books } Amatek, Inc., Solar Energy Handbook, 2nd ed., Chilton Book Company, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 1984. DeCicco, John, Green Guide to Cars and Trucks: Model Year 1999; and Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 1998; plus many others, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy “Another Crude Year,” […]
Energy Use
ENERGY USE is in the GSS theme 4, Underlying Causes and Possible Solutions. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Stay Current 1. How People Use Energy 1.1. Recent History Chapter 1 2. Energy Basics 2.1. Create Electricity2.2. Electric Motor2.3. Transformations Chapter 2 3. Fossil Fuels 3.1. Energy Units Chapter 3 4. Field Trip to a Power […]
EF9C. Stay Current—How Does Energy Flow in Living Systems?
{ Energy Flow Contents } See also… Ecosystem Change, Chapter 2 (Energy Through a System) and Chapter 5 (Carbon in the Biosphere) Losing Biodiversity, Chapter 5 (Soil, the Living Skin of the Earth) and Chapter 7 (One Global Ocean) 2021-04-22. Microbes are siphoning massive amounts of carbon from Earth’s tectonic plates. By Raleigh McElvery, Science Magazine. Excerpt: […]
EF8C. Stay Current—What is El Niño?
Staying current for Chapter 8 See Non-chronological Resources. { Energy Flow Contents } 2024-02-01. The Coral Chronicles. [https://www.science.org/content/article/remote-pacific-island-clues-el-ninos-future-preserved-ancient-reefs] By PAUL VOOSEN, Science. Excerpt: …The El Niño event, now at its peak, is driving weather extremes not just in Vanuatu, but all over the planet. Drought has struck Australia, as well as the Amazon, where intolerably […]
EF7C. Stay Current—What Causes Thunderstorms and Tornadoes?
Staying current for Chapter 7 See Non-chronological Resources. { Energy Flow Contents } -•-2024-07-24. The Sahara Desert helps keep hurricanes in check—for now. About research by LAIYIN ZHU et al, Science. In the Atlantic, …Warm air from an ordinary thunderstorm has absorbed heat from tepid seawater and begun churning—the birth of a hurricane. But, whether the storm […]