Solar Energy Quiz 3 (25 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions:

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1. The Earth's major source of energy is-

2. The author's response to conflicting viewpoints is:

3. Which answer choice BEST explains why the author wrote this article? (RI.2.6)

4. What do you call the area where sun light is collected in Solar Power plants?

5. Solar Power station is fueled by

6. I am a renewable energy source, everywhere the sun shines, converted into heat and electricity, often collected by panels on rooftops

7. Active thermal system _____

8. Sunlight that hits Earth near the poles is more _____ out and, therefore, the climate tends to be cooler in those places.

9. The sun is best suited for solar use in what part of the United States?

10. Transfer of energy when molecules bump into each other through contact. Heat is passed directly from hot to cold

11. Edmond Becquerel, a French physicist, was the first to realize that sunlight could produce an electric current in

12. Where would you put a solar panel?

13. In active solar power what device might you use to heat a building?

14. Instead of using coal and other fossil fuel generators what else could we use?

15. Changes in the _____ at which sunlight strikes Earth causes the seasons.

16. Which material absorbs the most solar radiation?

17. What kind of solar heating uses no mechanical components to move the heat around?

18. Conduction can only occur between two objects when-

19. In this layer of the atmosphere, the temperature gets colder as it goes up.

20. The value of solar constant is approximately _____

21. Who can Claim the Solar Energy ITC?

22. What happens in the event the utility has a power outage? Will the Solar system work?

23. What percentage of its output do solar panels produce when cloudy?

24. The electricity generated from a solar panel is fed into the electricity grid using _____

25. In a solar heating panel _____ energy is converted to _____