Risk and Benefits of Non-Renewable Resources

Resources that are not able to be reproduced as quickly as they are used are called _____.

• Renewable resources

• Non-renewable resources

Why are fossil fuels considered non-renewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?

• They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.

• They are being formed too far beneath the surface.

• We are depleting the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

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One ADVANTAGE of using fossil fuels is that:

• They are better for the environment.

• They can produce extremely high amounts of energy.

• They contribute to the greenhouse effect.

• They will never run out.

What is one DISADVANTAGE of using fossil fuels?

• Fossil fuels will never run out.

• Fossil fuels are very efficient forms of energy and are readily available, making them cheaper.

• Burning fossil fuels contributes to the greenhouse effect which causes global warming.

• Fossil fuels are better for the environment.

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Gasoline you put in the car:

• renewable

• nonrenewable

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Is Uranium...

• A renewable resource

• A non-renewable resource

• A fossil fuel

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coal

• renewable

• non-renewable

natural gas

• renewable

• non-renewable

Resources that are not able to be reproduced as quickly as they are used are called _____.

• renewable resources

• replaceable resources

• non renewable resources

• non replaceable resources

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Which are non renewable resources? (Choose all correct answers)

• natural gas

• coal

• water in a dam

• oil

• nuclear energy