A home in Oklahoma is built into a hillside such that only the south-facing side of the home, with many large windows, is exposed to the outside. Such construction of a home takes advantage of ________

A) passive solar heating and geothermal cooling B) passive solar heating and active biomass energy
C) biomass heating and geothermal cooling D) active geothermal heating and cooling


A

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