Natural Resources & Environmental Impacts Test Review

Match the following

• Energy from the Sun

• Biomass

• formed from the remains of ancient marine organism

• Nuclear

• made from recently living material

• Coal

• formed by splitting Uranium atoms

• Petroleum

• formed from the remains of ancient plant material that were buried

• Solar

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Why do communities have a negative view of wind farms?

• create large amounts of noise pollution

• create pollution in the form of smog

• releases greenhouse gases

• requires large amounts of space

• produces weaker and less reliable power

Nuclear plants are considered __________, because they produce large amounts of Uranium.

• renewable

• non renewable

6. This form of electrical energy generating is called...

• Hydroelectric
• Geothermal
• Wind
• Non-Renewable

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What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• Coal, Oil, and nuclear fuel

• Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas

• Electricity, Gas, Petroleum

• Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources

Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

• require expensive equipment
• take millions of years to replace
• can be found all over 
• provide all the energy we use

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

• Hydropower
• Wind Energy
• Geothermal Energy
• Solar Energy

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Renewable energy resources produce less_____________ than fossil fuels.

• pollution

• energy

• wind

• light

What does DEFORESTATION mean?

• happens when people live in the forest with Nature.

• happens when Earth's forests die from trees growing old.

• happens when trees are removed and forests disappear

• happens when fires burn forests and then it regrows

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Why is it important to manage non-renewable resources?

• they can produce too much energy

• they can be used up until there is no more

• they can be used up and we would have to make more

• they can become too dependent for energy

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