Energy Resources Review

What is an energy resource?

• a natural resource used to generate energy

• something formed from buried plants and animals

• force that opposes motion

• resource that can never be replaced

What are nonrenewable resources?

• energy sources that are replaced faster than they are used

• energy sources that can never be replaced or are replaced more slowly than they are used

• a natural product that can be changed into other forms of energy to do work

What are fossil fuels?

• energy producers that comes from radioactive elements

• a natural product that can be changed into other energy forms to do work

• energy resources that formed from buried plants and animals that lived a very long time ago

• resources that are replaced faster than they are used

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What is a renewable energy resource?

• an energy source that is replaced more slowly than they are used

• an energy source that can never be replaced

• an energy source that is replaced faster than they are used

• a fossil fuel

What kind of energy results from the nuclei of atoms splitting into two or more smaller nuclei?

• nuclear

• geothermal

• biomass

• burning fossil fuels

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What kind of energy is made from water being pumped underground near hot rock, turning it to steam?

• nuclear

• geothermal

• biomass

• burning fossil fuels

What kind of energy is given off when organic matter like plants and animal waste is burned?

• nuclear

• geothermal

• biomass

• burning fossil fuels

All are disadvantages of using Fossil Fuels EXCEPT

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• risk of oil spill

• produces acid rain

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All are advantages of using Nuclear energy EXCEPT

• no air pollution

• renewable resource

• releases large amounts of energy

What are the 3 MAIN types of fossil fuels?

• Coal - Oil - Nuclear

• Coal - Solar - Natural Gas

• Oil - Coal - Natural Gas