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

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

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

• The passage 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 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

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

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

Wind is a form of renewable energy; _______, oil is not renewable.

• for example

• particularly

• soon

• on the other hand