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What type of power plant uses scraps from farming and waste products to generate electricity?

• Hydroelectric Power Plant

• Geothermal Power Plant

• Biomass Power Plant

• Nuclear Power Plant

Which renewable resource gets its direct energy from the sun? 

• Geothermal

• Solar

• Wind

• Hydrogen

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Why do we tend to use non-renewable resources instead of renewable resources?

• Less Expensive

• More Energy

• All of these

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What is a disadvantage of using non-renewable resources?

• They have a large carbon footprint.

• They can all be used up over time.

• They can lead to global warming.

• All of these.

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All of the following are nonrenewable resources EXCEPT

• Coal

• animals

• petroleum (oil)

• natural gas

I am-*a solid*mined from the ground*made from ancient dead trees*a nonrenewable resourceWhat am I?

• natural gas

• coal

• plants

• water

Which of the following means of transportation uses a renewable resource for its energy source?

• solar powered car

• coal powered steam train

• natural gas car

• gasoline truck

Oil comes from deep underground. When people have used all of the oil on Earth, it will be gone. What kind of resource is oil?

• a renewable resource

• an inexhaustible resource

• a nonrenewable resource

• a non-usable resource

What should be pictured in picture 2 to show a renewable resource?

• young trees which have just been  planted

• level land with stumps removed

• a pond fish live in

• a log cabin that the trees were used to build

If the factory in this diagram was NOT practicing good environmental conservation, what effect would be produced?

• air and water pollution

• good fishing for recreation

• plentiful animals in the river

• purified drinking water

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