Renewable Resources

One advantage of solar and wind power over fossil fuels is that

• wind and solar are presently much less expensive than fossil fuels.

• wind and solar come from natural processes and fossil fuels do not.

• wind and solar are nonrenewable resources and fossil fuel are renewable.

• wind and solar are continuously renewable and fossil fuels take millions of years to be formed.

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Sunlight

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Wind

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

This energy is from moving air.

• Wind Energy

• Geothermal Energy

• Fossil Fuel Energy

• Biofuel

Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

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

What form of alternative energy uses a dam?

• hydroelectric power

• geothermal power

• biomass power

• solar power

This is electrical energy that comes from the force of energy of moving water. It is the most widely used type of renewable energy.

• Coal

• Hydroelectric Power

• Wind Energy

• Geothermal Energy

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Water

• Nonrenewable

• Renewable

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This is a liquid fuel derived from plant materials.

• wind energy

• biofuel (from biomass)

• geothermal energy

• solar energy

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