Natural Resources

A farmer decides that he is going to produce his own energy on the farm by using a type of renewable energy. The renewable energy could come from--

• setting up wind turbines
• having a coal furnace
• using natural gas
• burning oil

All of the following are nonrenewable resources EXCEPT

• Coal
• animals
• petroleum (oil)
• natural gas

Which of the following means of transportation uses a renewable resource for its energy source?

• solar powered car
• coal powered steam train
• natural gas car
• gasoline truck

Oil comes from deep underground. When people have used all of the oil on Earth, it will be gone. What kind of resource is oil?

• a renewable resource
• an inexhaustible resource
• a nonrenewable resource
• a non-usable resource

What should be pictured in picture 2 to show a renewable resource?

• young trees which have just been  planted
• level land with stumps removed
• a pond fish live in
• a log cabin that the trees were used to build

What is an example of a renewable resource?

• hydroelectric
• oil
• coal
• fossil fuel

Fossil fuels are renewable resources. True or False?

• True
• False

Nonrenewable or Renewable? Water

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

Nonrenewable or Renewable? Wood

• Nonrenewable 
• Renewable

Nonrenewable or Renewable? Coal

• Renewable
• Non-Renewable