Energy Resources

Geothermal Energy is 

• Renewable
• Easily depleted
• Nonrenewable
• Difficult to locate

Wind energy 

• is less expensive than fossil fuels
• is difficult to utilize in areas with low wind availability
• is a renewable source of energy
• utilizes small or large areas of land not previously used

Which is an advantage of installing solar panels?

• Reduced amount of air polllution
• High cost to install
• Number of cloudy days
• Use of nonrenewable resources

Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

• require expensive equipment
• take millions of years to replace
• can be found all over 
• provide all the energy we use

What is biomass? 

• energy from the sun
• energy from water
• energy from wind
• energy from plant and animal waste

What are two advantages of geothermal energy?

• cheap and a lot pollution
• expensive and a lot of pollution
• cheap and little pollution
• expensive and little pollution

What type of fossil fuel is mined from the ground?

• wind
• coal
• biomass
• air

Generators are used to produce electricity from all of these sources EXCEPT _____.

• solar
• wind
• hydroelectric
• nuclear

Wind, geothermal, and solar energy are all what type of energy resources?

• cheap
• potential
• renewable
• chemical 

One problem with ____ energy is that it produces radioactive waste. 

• nuclear
• solar
• tidal
• wind