Nonrenewable and Renewable Energy

What type of energy resource is wind?

• Nonrenewable

• Renewable

• Exhaustible

These are examples of a Fossil fuel - fuels produced by deposits of ancient plants and animals 

• wind,solar,geothermal
• oil,coal,natural gas
• wind,biofuels,geothermal

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Match the vocabulary word with the definition:
Greenhouse gases surround our planet, which prevents heat produced by the sun from escaping the earth’s atmosphere as easily as it once did.

• renewable resource
• nonrenewable resource
• greenhouse effect

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Approximately 22% of the United States uses this type of resource. 

• Nonrenewable

• Renewable 

What type of renewable resource am I? Waste products like trees, plants, grains, algae, manure, garbage, sewage, and paper can be converted into energy by burning.

• Nonrenewable
• Geothermal 
• Biomass
• Solar energy 

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What type of renewable energy am I? Force of falling water turns giant turbines to create electricity and found inside of dams.

• geothermal 
• biofuels
• hydroelectric
• solar

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What type of renewable energy am I? I turn water into steam which escapes through cracks in the Earth as well as forms geysers and hot springs.

• biofuels
• hydroelectric
• geothermal
• wind

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What type of renewable resource am I? I power large turbine generators that generate electricity.

• solar
• geothermal
• biofuels
• wind

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

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

__________ 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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