Energy Resources

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 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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Where does nuclear energy come from?

• Electric generators

• radioactive elements

• fossil fuels

• geothermal energy

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

• wind turbine

• perpetual motion machine

• electric generator

• solar cell

Geothermal energy is made from water being pumped underground near hot rock, turning it to steam.

• True

• False

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What are the 3 MAIN types of fossil fuels?

• Coal - Oil - Nuclear

• Coal - Oil - Solar

• Oil - Coal - Gas

What is the energy produced by moving water?

• hydroelectric power

• streams

• hydrowater power

• rivers

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The cleanest burning fossil fuel is ______.

• coal
• oil
• wind
• natural gas

What is biomass? 

• energy from the sun
• energy from water
• energy from wind
• energy from plant and animal waste

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What are two advantages of geothermal energy?

• cheap and a lot pollution
• expensive and a lot of pollution
• cheap and little pollution
• expensive and little pollution