Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Resources that are not able to be reproduced as quickly as they are used are called _____.

• renewable resources

• replaceable resources

• non renewable resources

• non replaceable resources

Geothermal energy uses heat from ____ to produce electricity.

• the earth

• coal

• oil

• natural gas

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Coal is burned to heat water so that the _______ can turn turbines.

• fire

• steam

• water

• heat

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What type of power plant uses the potential energy of water trapped behind a dam?

• nuclear power plant

• hydroelectric power plant

• solar station

• coal burning power plant

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What type of power plant uses scraps from farming, waste products and wind to generate electricity?

• Hydroelectric Power Plant

• Geothermal Power Plant

• Biomass Power Plant

• Nuclear Power Plant

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Uranium atoms are split to create a tremendous amount of heat in a _____ power plant.

• biomass

• geothermal

• nuclear

• hydroelectric

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Which are non renewable resources?

(Choose all correct answers)

• natural gas

• coal

• water in a dam

• oil

• nuclear energy

Which of these are renewable resources?

• coal

• wind

• geothermal

• water in a dam

• biomass

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What is a natural resource?

• Material from the Earth that people use for their needs.

• A place hidden in the mountains.

• An object made from natural things.

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

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Non-Renewable Energy Resource

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