Natural Resources review

Which BEST explains what scientists are referring to when they use the term conservation?

• nonliving parts of the environment

• living organisms in the environment

• health of the living organisms in the environment

• protection, management, and renewal of resources

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

__________ 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.4-ESS3-1

__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?

• They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.
• They are being formed too far beneath the surface.
• The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.
• We are depleting the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

Some power plants pump water down deep holes into hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth’s surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource?

• biomass
• wind
• solar energy
• geothermal energy

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Most forms of renewable energy produce a small amount of pollution from the generators that help to produce electricity. Which form of energy below does not use a turbine and generator for electricity?

• Hydroelectric
• Wind
• Solar
• Coal

Sunlight, water, and wind are examples of sustainable forms of energy. What does sustainable mean?

• We will run out at any minute.

• We will never run out.

• We will run out in 100 years.

• We will run out in 20 years.

Fuel made from plant (trees) or animal waste (organic matter)

• hydropower energy

• solar energy

• green

• biomass energy

Why don't we use solar energy or geothermal energy as much as we could?

• The sun and geothermal energy are limited.
• The sun and geothermal are too weak in certain areas.
• The set-up cost is too expensive.
• The machines are too large.

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

What alternative energy resource could be harmful to the environment which fish live in?

• biomass power
• wind power
• geothermal power
• hydroelectric power

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4