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ENSC Test 2024 Q&A’s Verified-Exam GuideCellular respiration - ✔✔glucose + oxygen = carbon dioxide + water + energy
prokaryotic - ✔✔small
no nucleus
simple
energy - ✔✔a conserved property that allows for changes in position, composition, and
temperature of matter
Thermodynamics - ✔✔energy can change forms, but can never be created or destroyed
Potential energy - ✔✔break C bonds within food molecules
- glucose + oxygen
Kinetic energy - ✔✔release energy
- movement
- heat
- carbon dioxide + water + energy
acid rain - ✔✔occurs when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide gases react in the atmosphere
with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form various acidic compounds
- result is a mild solution of sulfuric acid and nitric acid
Clean air act of 1990 - ✔✔required the reduction in NO and SO2 emissions
, why is there concern regarding the use and disposal of hydraulic fracturing fluid -
✔✔chemicals from the fluid may seep into groundwater sources
fission - ✔✔process by which energy is created by radioactive isotopes
- when performed in large quantity, a large amount of energy is generated
nuclear fission occurs - ✔✔when a uranium atom is split by a neutron to generate heat,
radiation, and more neutrons
Renweable Energy - ✔✔their rate of renewal depends on the sun
- energy sources that are more or less continuously made available in a time framework useful
to people
nonrenewable energy - ✔✔alternative energy sources, including nuclear and geothermal,
that are dependent on fuels or a resource that may be used up much faster than it is
replenished by natural processes
nuclear energy
passive solar energy collection - ✔✔harnessing energy by designing buildings to maximize or
minimize the absorption of incident solar radiation
passive solar energy - ✔✔heating happens when the sun shines through the windows of a
building and warms the interior
active solar energy - ✔✔require the input of some energy to pump a heat absorbing fluid
medium through a collector to store and distribute the energy
photovoltaic effect - ✔✔the process of converting light (photons) to electricity (voltage)
- the goal is to capture sunlight and convert it to electricity
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