Renewable Resources Conservation

What is conservation?

• Saving natural resources.

• Watching television throughout the day.

• Using natural and human resources.

• Leaving the watering running.

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_____ is a material that is found in nature and that is used by living things.

• nonrenewable resource
• natural resource
• renewable resource

Which of the following is a way a person could conserve natural resources?

• recycling waste materials like plastic, glass, paper, and aluminum
• limiting water use when showering, brushing teeth, and shaving
• using rechargeable batteries
• all of the above are good conservation practices

This is electrical energy that comes from the force of energy of moving water. It is the most widely used type of renewable energy.

• Coal

• Hydroelectric Power

• Wind Energy

• Geothermal Energy

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Hydropower can have a negative impact on river wildlife.

• Advantage

• Disadvantage

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Fossil Fuels are a nonrenewable resource.

• Advantage

• Disadvantage

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Which TWO of the following are renewable resources?

• Oil

• Solar

• Coal

• Hydroelectric

What type of energy is created from flowing or moving water usually through a dam.

• hydroelectric

• solar

• geothermal

• biomass

Fossil Fuels are

• pieces of rock that have been compacted many times

• rock that contains 50% plant and animal remains

• metamorphic rock

• fuels that form from the remains of plant and other organisms that were buried and altered over million of years

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This fossil fuel has been created by the remains of plants and must be mined from deep within the Earth.

• oil

• coal

• natural gas

• solar

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