Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

What are renewable resources?

• A limited amount and cannot be replaced in a human life time.

• Plastic bags

• Coal, oil, and natural gas

• Can be replaced in our lifetime through natural processes

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

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

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Trees are renewable resources.

• True

• False

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Coal is a renewable resource.

• True

• False

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Energy that is made by moving air

• Wind

• Solar

• Oil

• Coal

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Energy that comes from the sun

• Wind

• Solar

• Renewable energy

• Efficient

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Which of these resources are NOT renewable?

• gasoline

• sunlight

• wind

• corn

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What is one disadvantage of using fossil fuels?

• They do not produce much heat.

• They are difficult to use.

• They are nonrenewable resources.

• They produce more water than other fuels.

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Energy that is made by water in a dam

• Hydroelectric

• Solar

• Tidal power

• Eolic power