WorksheetsEnergy for Life
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is a meaning of the word renewable?
a)
able to be renewed
b)
related to the sky
c)
lacking popularity
2.
What is a meaning of the word generate?
a)
to produce
b)
to live in
c)
spring back
3.
What do people use energy for?
a)
People use energy to cause massive floods.
b)
People use energy to create more oil and coal.
c)
People use energy to play, study, and live.
d)
People use energy to minimize sustainable benefits.
4.
What does the passage compare and contrast with fossil fuels?
a)
The passage compares and contrasts playing, studying, and eating with fossil fuels.
b)
The passage compares and contrasts coal mines and natural gas wells with fossil fuels.
c)
The passage compares and contrasts Washington State with fossil fuels.
d)
The passage compares and contrasts forms of renewable energy with fossil fuels.
5.
Humans use energy from several different sources. What evidence from the passage supports this statement?
a)
People use energy to play, study, eat, make basketballs, and generate electricity.
b)
People use energy from natural gas, oil, coal, the sun, wind, and water.
c)
Wind turbines can affect birds, bats, and other wildlife around them.
d)
When a dam that produces hydropower fails, it can cause massive flooding.
6.
What is true of all types of energy discussed in the passage?
a)
They are all non-renewable.
b)
They are all renewable.
c)
They all have some negative impacts on the earth.
d)
None of them has any negative impacts on the earth.
7.
What is this passage mainly about?
a)
the importance of energy and where energy comes from
b)
watermills, dams, and other forms of hydropower
c)
planting, growing, harvesting, transporting, and cooking food
d)
the different ways children play and study
8.
Read the following sentences: "Fortunately, there are forms of renewable energy out there. They also come from nature and don't harm the environment as much as fossil fuels. Furthermore, they aren't consumed to produce energy, so we can use them again and again." What does the word renewable mean?
a)
harmful to the environment
b)
able to be used more than once
c)
produced by falling and running water
d)
made in the United States of America
9.
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.
Wind is a form of renewable energy; _______, oil is not renewable.
Wind is a form of renewable energy; _______, oil is not renewable.
a)
for example
b)
particularly
c)
soon
d)
on the other hand
10.
What is a meaning of the word dependence?
a)
the state of being dependent upon another
b)
a remark that calls attention to something or someone
c)
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
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