Unit 6 APES Review

Hydroelectric Power uses what source to create energy?

• Fire

• Air

• Water

• Rocks

Presently hydropower plants provide __________ of the world’s electricity

• 1/5

• 1/3

• 1/4

• 1/8

Why is solar energy considered renewable energy?

• It's cheaper than fossil fuels
• The sun's energy would not run out for billions of years
  
• Solar energy recharges batteries
• All of them

Renewable energy resources produce less_____________ than fossil fuels.

• pollution

• energy

• wind

• light

Heat transferred from beneath the surface of Earth and used to produce energy for human use is...

• Hydropower
• Wind Energy
• Geothermal Energy
• Solar Energy

What percentage of energy used in the U.S. comes from renewable energy?

• 5%

• 10%

• 50%

• 80%

Which of the following is not a type of fossil fuel? 

• Coal
• Light
• Petroleum
• Natural Gas

Why do we depend on fossil fuels? 

• Electricity, transportation, and heating
• Food
• Sunlight
• Growing, building muscle, calcium

How does petroleum form

• build up of layers of trees and leaves
• build up of once-living aquatic organisms underneath pressure and heat. 
• Build up of different rocks
• It's formed from gasses in the air

What is a greenhouse gas?

• a gas created from a plant
• gas that causes the atmosphere to get warmer
• a green colored gas
• a gas that kills you right away