Renewable and nonrenewable

What is one DISADVANTAGE of using renewable resources?

• They are not as efficient as burning fossil fuels.

• They will eventually run out.

• They are cheaper and better for the environment.

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Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable

• Non Renewable

Do renewable energy sources run out?

• Yes

• No

Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?

• They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.

• The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.

• They are being formed too far beneath the surface.

• We are depleting the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

Fossil Fuels are...?

• A group of energy resources that were formed from ancient plants and organisms

• A type of petrol used to power dinosaur cars.

• An energy resource that can be quickly and easily replaced.

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__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Fossil Fuel

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

• Forever Fuel

Type of energy that is generated from the heat stored in the Earth.

• Tidal Wave Energy

• Geothermal Energy

• Hydraulic Energy

• Solar Energy

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Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable

• Non Renewable

Energy made by the gravitational potential energy of water is called_______.

• hydroelectric enegry

• nuclear fussion

• solar energy

• biomass energy

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Energy from the Sun is called________.

• hydroelectric energy

• biomass energy

• wind energy

• solar energy