Nonrenewable Resources

What is the start of coal?

• Zooplankton

• Algae

• Peat

• Animals

What conditions are needed to form coal?

• Heat and pressure and time

• Sea or Ocean

• Oxygen

• Cool and moist

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What happens to fossil fuels to create electricity?

• They are stored

• They are burned

• They are melted

• They are frozen

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What is the problem with using fossil fuels?

• They release too much carbon

• They don't create a lot of electricity

• They are renewable

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What does non-renewable mean?

• Something that lasts forever

• Something that can be renewed

• Something that cannot be replaced quickly

Nuclear Power is - 

• Renewable
• Non-renewable

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Nuclear power uses ____ for fuel.

• steel
• coal
• uranium
• hydrogen

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Nuclear energy uses _____ to turn turbines to power a generator.

• wind
• water
• steam
• solar

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Splitting a uranium atom is called - 

• fission
• fusion

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What is different about the formation of oil or natural gas?

• heat

• pressure

• time

• ocean

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