Energy

Why is solar energy considered renewable energy?

• It's cheaper than fossil fuels
• The sun's energy would not run out for billions of years
  
• Solar energy recharges batteries
• All of them

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Which type of energy is generated from flowing water?

• Hydro

• Solar

• Nuclear

• Biomass

Where are you most likely to find a wind farm?

• Out west in flat fields

• In urban areas

• Near the ocean

• In the Tennessee Valley

What company provides hydroelectricity to people in the Tennessee Valley and has been around since the Great Depression?

• TVA

• EPB

• Charter

• Cowetta Fayette

Why are fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable?

• it takes millions of years for them to form

• they can only be formed from dinosaurs and they are all gone

• they can only be used by certain countries

• they are formed from rock and there is only a certain amount of rock on Earth

Which type of energy source interferes with land stability?

• geothermal

• wind

• hydro

• nuclear

Chernobyl was a result of what type of energy source?

• nuclear

• tidal

• fossil fuels

• biomass

What are turbines connected to in order to create electricity?

• generators

• power grids

• power lines

• dams

Biomass takes stored energy out of what?

• organic matter

• the sun

• flowing water

• living things

An anerobic digester uses __________ to release stored energy.

• bacteria

• turbines

• wind mills

• reactors