Biomass

What is biomass?

• Anything that is or once was alive

• A fossil fuel

• a nonrenewable resource

• A oil we find underground

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What is Biomass good for?

• gas

• Heat and electricity

• oil

• to make plastic

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What are the three main fuels for Biomass?

• wood, water, fruit

• wood,corn, acohol

• beans, corn, alchohol

• wood, alchohol, crops

Is Biomass

• Nonrenewable

• renewable

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Biomass

• Energy can neither be created nor destroyed

• Any organic matter that can be used as an energy source such as wood, crops, yard waste, animal waste.

  
  

• Heat energy inside the Earth that can be used to heat buildings and produce electricity

• Process that uses energy from the sun to generate heat or electricity
  

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What is biomass energy primarily derived from?

• Recently living organisms

• Fossil fuels

• Inorganic matter

• Nuclear reactions

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Biomass Fuels are created from

• the sun's energy

• intense heat from Earth's interior

• strong, steady winds

• materials that were once part of living things

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Which is NOT an example of biomass?

• wood

• crop leftovers (the part of the plant that isn't consumed)

• manure and/or trash

• petroleum

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fuel made from plant or animal waste (organic matter)

• hydropower energy

• solar energy

• green

• biomass energy

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True or False: When you burn wood to generate heat in your house, you are using biomass energy.

• True

• False