Natural Resources Review

Which of the following natural resources are nonrenewable?

• Water
• Animals
• Natural gas
• Wind

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Can be replaced within a human lifetime

• Nonrenewable resource
• Renewable resource

Which group includes ALL renewable resources?

• Coal, trees, water, oil
• Water, wind, sun, plants
• Minerals, sun, natural gas, water

Takes millions of years to form.

• hydroelectric
• renewable
• solar
• fossil fuels

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How do fossil fuels affect the environment?

• Expensive
• Leaves fossils at earth's surface
• Causes air pollution when burned
• Bonds sediment.

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Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Geothermal energy is energy from 

• the sun
• heat from deep in the earth
• wind
• inexhaustable

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Which type of alternative energy source is shown in this picture?

• Wind
• Solar
• Hydroelectric
• Geothermal

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Why do some power plants use fossil fuels to make electricity?

• Fossil fuels are better for the environment

• Fossil fuels slow down global climate change

• Fossil fuels are less expensive than other power sources

• Fossil fuels are renewable

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Which will most likely occur if fossil fuels continue to be used globally as the primary energy resource?

• The amount of available food will increase.

• The amount of pollution in the oceans will decrease.

• The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will increase.

• The amount of health concerns affecting the human population will decrease.

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