Renewable Energy Resources

What characteristic do all renewable resources share?

• Produced by waste products of animals
• Form underground from dead organisms
• Allow energy to pass through them easily
• Replaced in a reasonably short time period

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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

This renewable resource comes from deep within the Earth.

• Biomass
• Geothermal Energy
• Hydropower
• Solar Energy

What is the term for the technology that generates electricity when sunlight in semiconductors, causing them to move?

• active solar heating
• passive solar heating
• photovoltaic cells

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Trees, crops, garbage, & landfill gas are all examples of 

• Energy
• Biomass
• Heat
• Nuclear waste

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

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Solar power, wind power, and water power are good because...

• they are expensive

• they are not powerful

• they don't create much pollution

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Which energy source contributes to air pollution?

• hydropower
• solar
• geothermal
• biomass

Which of the following are fossil fuels? (Select all that apply.)

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural Gas

• Nuclear Energy

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