Energy

Energy

By Niketa Macklin

Multiple Choice

What do people use energy for?

• People use energy to cause massive floods.

• People use energy to create more oil and coal.

• People use energy to play, study, and live.

• People use energy to minimize sustainable benefits from the sun.

Multiple Choice

What does the passage compare and contrast with fossil fuels?

• The passage compares and contrasts forms of renewable energy with fossil fuels.

• The passage compares and contrasts Washington State with fossil fuels.

• The passage compares and contrasts coal mines and natural gas wells with fossil fuels.

• The passage compares and contrasts playing, studying, and eating with fossil fuels.

Multiple Choice

Humans use energy from several different sources.

• People use energy to play, study, eat, make basketballs, and generate electricity.

• People use energy from natural gas, oil, coal, the sun, wind, and water.

• Wind turbines can affect birds, bats, and other wildlife around them.

• When a dam that produces hydropower fails, it can cause massive flooding.

Multiple Choice

Using renewable energy is a good way to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, though renewable energies have some negative impacts on the earth as well.

What is a synonym for the word dependence?

• independent

• need

• trust

• potato

Fill in the Blank

After reading the passage, which energy source do you think will be the fuel of the future?

choose from wind, water, or solar

Multiple Choice

What is true of all types of energy discussed in the passage?

• They are all non-renewable.

• They are all renewable

• They all can affect the earth negatively.

• None of them can negatively affect the earth.

Multiple Choice

The word -re in renewable is a suffix.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is this passage mainly about?

• the importance of energy and where energy comes from

• watermills, dams, and other forms of hydropower

• planting, growing, harvesting, transporting, and cooking food

• the different ways children play and study

Multiple Choice

Read the following sentences:

“Fortunately, there are forms of renewable energy out there. They also come from nature and don’t harm the environment as much as fossil fuels. Furthermore, they aren’t consumed to produce energy, so we can use them again and again.”

What does the word renewable mean?

• harmful to the environment

• able to be used more than once

• produced by falling and running water

• made in the United States of America

Fill in the Blank

Hydrothermal energy is another name for _________ energy?