ISAT Standard - ESS 3 - Earth and Human Activity

What is an energy resource?

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

• something formed from buried plants and animals

• force that opposes motion

• resource that can never be replaced

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

All of the following are fossil fuels EXCEPT

• oil

• nuclear energy

• coal

• natural gas

What changes chemical energy from fossil fuels into electrical energy?

• electric generators

• nuclear fission

• power plants

• windmills

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

Some power plants pump water down deep holes into hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth’s surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource?

• biomass
• wind
• solar energy
• geothermal energy

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What characteristic do all renewable resources share?

• Produced by waste products
• Form underground from dead organisms.
  
• Replaced in a short period of time
• Allow energy to pass through them easily

The main idea of sustainability is to act responsibly so that the resources on the planet will be able to _____________many generations to come.

• feed

• wipe out

• support

• clothe

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An accurate definition of Sustainability is

• meeting population needs

• meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to survive

• meeting the needs of the future without worrying about todays

• meeting the food needs of animals

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