Environmental Renewable and Nonrenewable review

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

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Coal is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Hyrdo Power is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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What kind of environment would have had to existed in the past for an area to have coal today?

• Any environment where a large number of plants and animals died.
• A swamp with many generation of plants that died and couldn't decompose naturally.
• A sea where many plants and animals died and couldn't decompose.
• A desert environment where no living things ever existed. 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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When coal is used by humans, it is typically used to 

• Heat homes directly
• Heat water 
• Generate electricity
• Heat food

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A disadvantage of solar energy is

• that the clouds can block the sunlight
• it is not available at night
• that the clouds can block the sunlight and it is not available at night
• the sun is too hot to be absorbed in solar panels

An example of a biofuel is

• gasoline
• oil
• animal waste
• minerals

Conservation is

• the practice of increasing the use of natural resources in order to use them
• the practice of increasing the use of natural resources in order to save them
• the practice of decreasing the use of natural resources in order to use them
• the practice of decreasing the use of natural resources in order to save them

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

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Which is a consequence of an increase in greenhouse gases?

• Ice caps freezing

• global cooling

• sea levels rising

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