Nonrenewable Resources

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 a major problem with using fossil fuels?

• They release too much carbon

• They don't create a lot of electricity

• They are renewable

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

The splitting of an atom is called

• nuclear fission

• nuclear fusion

What organisms lead to the formation of oil and natural gas?

• plants

• mammals

• insects

• marine organisms

Which one of these is not a fossil fuel?

• coal

• oil

• natural gas

• nuclear energy

How long does it take for fossil fuels to form?

• A few weeks

• A year

• A hundred years

• Millions of years

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Nuclear energy comes from the splitting apart of an atom of which element?

• radium

• uranium

• polonium

• ruhlium