Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Resources

What are renewable resources?

• Resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time
• Resources that are used faster than they can be replaced
• They can not be replaced

What are Nonrenewable resources? 

• Resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time  
• Resources that are used faster than they can be replaced 
• Resources America does not use

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Does the United States gets most of its energy from renewable resources?

• Yes
• No

Name Two examples of Nonrenewable resources?

• Coal and Oil
• Biomass and Wind Turbines
• Tidal and Geothermal

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Name two examples of Renewable energy?

• Coal and Nuclear
• Oil and Gas
• Solar Panels and Hydroelectric

Define Solar Energy

• Heat energy from inside the Earth
• Energy Created by burning plant and animal wastes
• Energy from the sun

Define Biomass energy:

• Energy created by burning plant and animal wastes
• Energy created by tides and dams
•  Uses “farms”

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Define Geothermal energy

• Created by burning plant and animal wastes
•  Energy from the sun
• Heat energy from inside the Earth

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Natural resources form in nature. Which of the following is NOT a natural resource?

• oil

• coal

• plastic

• water

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__________is the energy created by wind turning wind turbines.

• Geothermal
• Hydro
• Wind
• Nuclear

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