Grade 8 Energy Resources (Summer School) Exam

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource
• Fossil Fuel
• Forever Fuel

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 is an energy resource?

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

• something formed from buried plants and animals

• force that opposes motion

• resource that can never be replaced

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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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

All of the following are fossil fuels EXCEPT

• oil

• water

• coal

• natural gas

All of the following are uses of fossil fuels EXCEPT

• to produce electrical energy

• gasoline

• to heat homes

• windmills

Nuclear fission is a process where the nucleus of an atom splits into two smaller nuclei.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Splitting atoms creates nuclear energy and what other type of energy?

• electrical

• thermal

• sound

• light

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

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

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

What is a device that changes solar energy into electrical energy?

• wind turbine

• perpetual motion machine

• electric generator

• solar cell