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- What is the energy that is trapped within plants and animals and can be used as an alternative source of energy?
Answer: Biomass Energy
- What is also referred to as garbage and can be burned as an alternative source of energy?
Answer: Municipal Solid Waste
- What is an alternative fuel source that comes from the fermentation of plant material such as corn fermentation of corn or sugar cane?
Answer: Ethanol
- What is an alternative source of energy that comes from the decomposition of organic material in landfills?
Answer: Landfill Gas
- What is the chemical process that makes biofuels such as ethanol?
Answer: Fermentation
- What are power plants that use the heat produced from burning garbage to create steam to generate electricity?
Answer: Waste-to-Energy Plants
- What is molten rock in the earth’s crust?
Answer: Magma
- What is renewable energy that comes from the heat trapped within the earth’s crust?
Answer: Geothermal Energy
- What are areas that are more likely to have earthquakes and volcanoes because they lay along fault lines?
Answer: Geologically Active Area
- What is a type of geothermal energy where magma heats rocks within the earth’s crust which in turn heat deep circulating groundwater?
Answer: Hot Dry Rock Sources
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