Energy for Life

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.

What does the passage compare and contrast with fossil fuels?

• The passages compares and contrasts playing, studying, and eating with fossil fuels.
• The passages compares and contrasts coal mines and natural gas wells with fossil fuels.
• The passages compares and contrasts Washington State with fossil fuels.
• The passages compares and contrasts forms of renewable energy with fossil fuels.

Humans use energy from several different sources.
What evidence from the passage supports this statement?

• 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.

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

• They are all non-renewable.
• They are all renewable.
• They all have some negative impacts on the earth.
• None of them has any negative impacts on the earth.

What is this question mainly about?

• the importance of energy and where energy comes from
• watermills, dams, and other forms of hydropower
• growing, planting, harvesting, transporting, and cooking food
• the different ways children play and study

Choose the answer that best completes the sentences below:
Wind is a form of renewable energy; _____________, oil is not renewable.

• for example
• particularly
• soon
• on the other hand