EGEE 101 Midterm #3 Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
The splitting of a larger nucleus into two smaller nuclei - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Nuclear Fission
Installing radiant flooring, insulating windows, and heavy curtains to absorb the sun's warmth -
Correct Answer✔️✔️-Passive Solar Heating
Nuclear fuel rods are _____ uranium by concentration - Correct Answer✔️✔️-3-4%
What percentage of the world's electricity comes from hydroelectric dams? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-
20%
The challenge associated with wind energy that fluctuates throughout the day - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-Intermittency
The temperature at which nuclear fusion becomes possible - Correct Answer✔️✔️-13 Million
Celsius
If a solar farm requires 40 acres in Iowa (210 sunny days per year), how much land would it require
in Nevada (350 sunny days per year)? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-24 Acres
Spent fuel rods - Correct Answer✔️✔️-High Level Radioactive Waste
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, Which energy sources typically don't fluctuate during power generation? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-
Nuclear and Hydro
The challenge associated with a renewable energy where excess power generation cannot be saved
for later use - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Storage
Betz's law dictates that the maximum efficiency that can be achieved with a wind turbine is - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-59%
The sun delivers approximately 10,000 times more energy per second to the earth than the whole
world's population uses, True or False? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-True
After a uranium based fuel rod has spent 3 years in a reactor, how much of its uranium has been
used? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-10%
How many people receive electricity from the Three Gorges Dam? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-60
Million
Nuclear, wind, solar, and hydropower are all energy forms that do not directly emit carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere, True or False? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-True
The policy that compels a utility to purchase electricity from third parties during excess wind or solar
power production - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Net Metering
A technology that extracts energy out of waves - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Tidal Energy
Reflecting sunlight off of mirrors to create concentrated heat for generating steam to rotate a turbine
to induce an electric current - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Solar Thermal Energy Conversion
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Questions and Answers
The splitting of a larger nucleus into two smaller nuclei - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Nuclear Fission
Installing radiant flooring, insulating windows, and heavy curtains to absorb the sun's warmth -
Correct Answer✔️✔️-Passive Solar Heating
Nuclear fuel rods are _____ uranium by concentration - Correct Answer✔️✔️-3-4%
What percentage of the world's electricity comes from hydroelectric dams? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-
20%
The challenge associated with wind energy that fluctuates throughout the day - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-Intermittency
The temperature at which nuclear fusion becomes possible - Correct Answer✔️✔️-13 Million
Celsius
If a solar farm requires 40 acres in Iowa (210 sunny days per year), how much land would it require
in Nevada (350 sunny days per year)? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-24 Acres
Spent fuel rods - Correct Answer✔️✔️-High Level Radioactive Waste
FOR STUDY PURPOSES ONLY COPYRIGHT © 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, Which energy sources typically don't fluctuate during power generation? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-
Nuclear and Hydro
The challenge associated with a renewable energy where excess power generation cannot be saved
for later use - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Storage
Betz's law dictates that the maximum efficiency that can be achieved with a wind turbine is - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-59%
The sun delivers approximately 10,000 times more energy per second to the earth than the whole
world's population uses, True or False? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-True
After a uranium based fuel rod has spent 3 years in a reactor, how much of its uranium has been
used? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-10%
How many people receive electricity from the Three Gorges Dam? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-60
Million
Nuclear, wind, solar, and hydropower are all energy forms that do not directly emit carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere, True or False? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-True
The policy that compels a utility to purchase electricity from third parties during excess wind or solar
power production - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Net Metering
A technology that extracts energy out of waves - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Tidal Energy
Reflecting sunlight off of mirrors to create concentrated heat for generating steam to rotate a turbine
to induce an electric current - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Solar Thermal Energy Conversion
FOR STUDY PURPOSES ONLY COPYRIGHT © 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
