Identifying Alternative Energy Sources

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years. 

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

A type of energy that is renewable because it uses the sun's energy is

• nuclear energy

• biomass energy

• solar energy

• geothermal energy

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

A type of energy that is renewed in a short time and is made of fuels that are made from wood, dried plants and garbage is

• biomass

• solar energy

• water energy

• nuclear energy

A type of energy that is renewable and uses large turbines to use wind energy is

• nuclear energy

• wind energy

• turbine energy

• solar energy

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

A type of energy that uses heat that is stored  inside the earth is 

• geometric energy

• geothermal energy

• biomass energy

• solar energy

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

What is Biomass?

• Energy from the sun

• Any organic matter that can be used as an energy source such as wood or crops

• The fuel used by nuclear power plants to produce steam

• A solid black fossil fuel that formed from the remains of plants that lived and died millions of years ago

• A colorless, flammable gas refined from petroleum and natural gas

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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Which of the following are RENEWABLE energy sources?

• Solar

• Biomass

• Uranium

• Propane

What is Wind Energy?

• A colorless, odorless fossil fuel made mostly of methane

• Energy from the heat within Earth

• Energy that come from the force of falling water

• Energy in moving air

• A fossil fuel that looks like a thick, black liquid

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is Hydropower?

• A colorless, odorless fossil fuel made mostly of methane

• Energy from the heat within Earth

• Energy that come from the force of falling water

• Energy in moving air

• A fossil fuel that looks like a thick, black liquid

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is Geothermal?

• A colorless, odorless fossil fuel made mostly of methane

• Energy from the heat within Earth

• Energy that come from the force of falling water

• Energy in moving air

• A fossil fuel that looks like a thick, black liquid