Heating & Cooling Water Heating Appliances Lighting Energy Sources

100

What are air ducts?
A branching network of tubes that carry air throughout your home

100

What is a bath?
Between the bath and the shower, this uses the most water and energy

100

What is cold?
Wash clothes in this type of water

100

What is incandescent?
Fluorescent lamps are much more efficient than this type

100

What is biomass?
Burning wood, fast growing grasses and tress is this energy source

200

What is natural gas?
More than half of U.S. uses this energy source to heat homes

200

What is third?
Water heating ranks this as an energy expense in your home

200

What is the monitor?
Most of the energy used to run your computer is for

200

What is compact fluorescent light?
CFL is an abbreviation for this

200

What is Uranium-235?
The element used as the fuel in nuclear reactors is

300

What is programmable?
This type of thermostat can save as much as 10% a year on heating and cooling bills

300

What is 120 degrees?
This temperature setting provides comfortable hot water for most uses

300

What is 1000?
A kilowatt is this many watts

300

What is 4 (or 75% - 90%)?
CFLs are this many times more efficient than ILs

300

What is non-renewable?
Fossil fuels are considered _____ because we use them at a faster rate than the earth can produce them

400

What is landscaping?
A natural and beautiful way to reduce energy bills

400

What is clothes washing?
This home activity uses the most water

400

What is blue?
In natural gas appliances look for this color flame

400

What is motion sensor?
Outdoors you should use lights with a photocell or this type of sensor

400

What is hydropower?
This is the most widely used renewable energy source

500

What is the damper?
Keep this closed unless a fire is going

500

What is low flow?
Consider installing this type of faucet

500

What is a fan?
Use this instead of a window air conditioner to save energy

500

What are fluorescent?
Most schools use these kinds of light bulbs in the halls and classrooms

500

What is 600?
Replacing a 100 watt incandescent bulb with a fluorescent bulb will save burning _____ pounds of coal

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