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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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

Where does nuclear energy come from?

• Electric generators

• radioactive elements

• fossil fuels

• geothermal energy

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

• True

• False

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

• electrical

• thermal

• sound

• light

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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

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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