| Heating & Cooling | Water Heating | Appliances | Lighting | Energy Sources |
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100What are air ducts?
A branching network of tubes that carry air throughout your home
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100What is a bath?
Between the bath and the shower, this uses the most water and energy
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100What is cold?
Wash clothes in this type of water
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100What is incandescent?
Fluorescent lamps are much more efficient than this type
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100What is biomass?
Burning wood, fast growing grasses and tress is this energy source
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200What is natural gas?
More than half of U.S. uses this energy source to heat homes
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200What is third?
Water heating ranks this as an energy expense in your home
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200What is the monitor?
Most of the energy used to run your computer is for
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200What is compact fluorescent light?
CFL is an abbreviation for this
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200What is Uranium-235?
The element used as the fuel in nuclear reactors is
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300What is programmable?
This type of thermostat can save as much as 10% a year on heating and cooling bills
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300What is 120 degrees?
This temperature setting provides comfortable hot water for most uses
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300What is 1000?
A kilowatt is this many watts
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300What is 4 (or 75% - 90%)?
CFLs are this many times more efficient than ILs
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300What is non-renewable?
Fossil fuels are considered _____ because we use them at a faster rate than the earth can produce them
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400What is landscaping?
A natural and beautiful way to reduce energy bills
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400What is clothes washing?
This home activity uses the most water
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400What is blue?
In natural gas appliances look for this color flame
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400What is motion sensor?
Outdoors you should use lights with a photocell or this type of sensor
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400What is hydropower?
This is the most widely used renewable energy source
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500What is the damper?
Keep this closed unless a fire is going
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500What is low flow?
Consider installing this type of faucet
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500What is a fan?
Use this instead of a window air conditioner to save energy
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500What are fluorescent?
Most schools use these kinds of light bulbs in the halls and classrooms
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500What is 600?
Replacing a 100 watt incandescent bulb with a fluorescent bulb will save burning _____ pounds of coal
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