Fossil Fuels

Nonrenewable energy resource, such as oil and coal, formed over millions of years from the remains of dead plants and other organisms.

• Fossil Fuel

• Petroleum

• Clean energy

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Sedimentary rock formed from decayed plant material, the worlds most abundant fossil fuel.

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Liquid fossil fuel formed marine organisms that is burned to obtain energy and used in the manufacture of plastics.

• Natural gas

• Oil

• Gasoline

Fossil Fuel formed from marine organisms that is often found in tilted or folded rock layers and is used for heating and cooking.

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Alternative Energy source that is based on atomic fission.

• Thermal Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Nuclear Energy

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Energy from the Sun that is clean, inexhaustible, and can be transformed into electricity by solar cells.

Electricity produced by waterpower using large dams in a river.

• Hydroelectric Energy

• Solar Energy

• Mechanical Energy

Conservation method in wich old materials are processed to make new ones.

• Reinvented

• Recycling

• Reuse

Area where many windmills use wind to generate electricity.

• Wind Farm

• windmills

Which of the following is a fossil fuel?

• Natural gas

• Nuclear

• Hydrogen