Renewable and Non-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.

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Renewable or Nonrenewable: Sunlight

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

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Which of the following are Non-Renewable energy resources? (Check all that apply.)

• coal

• wind

• solar

• nuclear

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Renewable or Nonrenewable: Coal

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

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Match the following

• Limited resources

• A resource that cannot be replaced in a human lifetime

• Geoscience process

• Something that is needed by organisms and is not infinite in its abundance

• Nonrenewable

• A resource that can be replaced in a human lifetime

• Natural resources

• Resources that exist without human intervention

• Renewable

• Any process that happens on Earth

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A (a)   is a resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate it is used

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• fossil fuel

• material resource

• energy resource

• Natural Resource

The two types of Natural Resources are ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   resources.

• renewable

• nonrenewable

• fossil fuel

• material resource

• energy resource

• natural resources

Match the following natural resource with its meaning.

• heat in the Earth

• geothermal

• fossil fuels

• coal, oil, natural gas

• sun

• solar

• water

• hydropower

• plants and animals

• biomass

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Natural Gas

• nonrenewable

• renewable

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Oil

• Nonrenewable

• Renewable

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