Renewable & NonRenewable SCIENCE 7th Grade

The sun's energy as the original source of energy on Earth.

Answer choices

• 
  renewable

• non-renewable

What are natural resources?

• Objects made from natural and artificial things.

• Materials from the Earth that people use for their needs.

• Selected materials hidden in the mountains.

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

• Solar

• Oil

• 
  Coal

• Natural Gas

Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable

• Non-renewable

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

• renewable resources

• non renewable resources

• replaceable resources

• non replaceable resources

Geothermal energy uses heat from ____ to produce electricity.

• natural gas

• the earth

• oil

• coal

What type of power plant uses the potential energy of water trapped behind a dam?

• nuclear power plant

• solar station

• hydroelectric power plant

• coal burning power plant

Fossil fuels were formed from the buried remains of plants and tiny animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Which of the following are fossil fuels?

• coal, uranium, oil

• coal, oil, natural gas

• solar, natural gas, uranium

• geothermals, coal, natural gas

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

• Hydroelectric Power Plant

• Geothermal Power Plant

• Nuclear Power Plant

• Biomass Power Plant

Uranium atoms are split through fission to create a tremendous amount of heat in a _____ power plant

• biomass

• nuclear

• geothermal

• hydroelectric