Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy

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

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

__________is the energy generated from the sun by using solar panels.

• Wind
• Hydro
• Nuclear
• Solar

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When coal is used by humans, it is typically used to 

• Heat homes directly
• Heat water 
• Generate electricity
• Heat food

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What type of energy resource is wind?

• Nonrenewable
• Renewable
• Exhaustible 

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These are examples of a Fossil fuel - fuels produced by deposits of ancient plants and animals. Are they renewable or nonrenewable?

• wind, solar, geothermal

• coal, oil, natural gas

• wind, biofuels, geothermal

• renewable

• nonrenewable

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What type of energy converts the sun's rays into electricity? Is it renewable or nonrenewable?

• nonrenewable

• biomass

• geothermal
• solar
• renewable

What type of renewable energy turns water into steam which escapes through cracks in the Earth, forming geysers and hot springs? Is it renewable or nonrenewable?

• biofuels
• hydroelectric
• geothermal
• renewable

• nonrenewable

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This is formed from plants, wood, organic garbage, and animal waste. Is it renewable or nonrenewable?

• Biomass

• Coal

• Geothermal

• renewable

• nonrenewable

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Which of the following are nonrenewable resources?

• coal, oil, and natural gas

• nuclear power

• hydroelectricity, solar power, wind power, geothermal energy

• biomass: wood, scraps, corn stalks, animal waste, etc.

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Which of the following are renewable resources?

• coal and oil

• geothermal

• wind

• biomass: wood, scraps, corn stalks, animal waste, etc.

• solar