Identifying renewable and non-renewable energy sources | Exit Quiz | Oak National Academy

All energy on Earth comes (a)   or indirectly from the Sun.

Answer explanation

All living organisms need energy to survive. Plants need sunshine to grow.

Where does all energy on Earth come from?

• the Sun

• electricity

• coal and oil

Answer explanation

All living organisms need energy to survive.

Coal has energy from the Sun. Put these sentences in order to explain how.

• When these plants and leaves died, they got buried under rocks and soil

• Millions of years ago, plants used the Sun’s energy to create food

• Over millions of years, heat and pressure hardened the dead vegetation into coal

• The Sun gives out heat and light energy

Answer explanation

This process takes millions of years, which is why coal is non-renewable.

Match these resources to the types of renewable or non-renewable (finite) resources they are.

• natural gas

• renewable - it produces power from water

• hydroelectric

• non-renewable - it is a fossil fuel

• tidal

• renewable - it produces power from sea tides

• coal

• non-renewable - it is a solid fossil fuel

Answer explanation

Non-renewable resources have a limit, or an end, and will run out.

Which of these are fossil fuels?

• oil

• electricity

• natural gas

• solar power

Answer explanation

Fossil fuels are examples non-renewable resources.