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Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What characteristic do all renewable resources share?
a)
Produced by waste products
b)
Form underground from dead organisms.
c)
Replaced in a short period of time
d)
Allow energy to pass through them easily
2.
Which of the following is a fossil fuel?
a)
Wind
b)
Coal
c)
Solar
d)
Biomass
3.
Petroleum and natural gas form from...
a)
strong winds
b)
cooled magma
c)
radioactive materials
d)
remains of plants and animals
4.
Hydroelectric power produces electricity using.....
a)
Wind
b)
Sunlight
c)
Moving water
d)
Dung
5.
The careful use of a resource is....
a)
recycling
b)
pollution
c)
depositing
d)
conservation
6.
Energy from the sun is known as.........
a)
hydroelectric energy
b)
geothermal energy
c)
solar energy
d)
wind energy
7.
Water is renewable because it.......
a)
can be frozen
b)
important to all life
c)
can be replaced constantly
d)
can evaporate
8.
Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......
a)
require expensive equipment
b)
take millions of years to replace
c)
can be found all over
d)
provide all the energy we use
9.
What is biomass?
a)
energy from the sun
b)
energy from water
c)
energy from wind
d)
energy from plant and animal waste
10.
What are two advantages of geothermal energy?
a)
cheap and a lot pollution
b)
expensive and a lot of pollution
c)
cheap and little pollution
d)
expensive and little pollution
11.
What type of fossil fuel is mined from the ground?
a)
wind
b)
coal
c)
biomass
d)
air
12.
The type of energy that cattle create is ________?
a)
biomass
b)
solar
c)
natural gas
d)
nuclear
13.
Geothermal Energy is
a)
Renewable
b)
Easily depleted
c)
Nonrenewable
d)
Difficult to locate
14.
What percentage of energy consumption comes from nonrenewable resources?
a)
7%
b)
93%
c)
23%
d)
27%
15.
Which is an advantage of installing solar panels?
a)
Reduced amount of air polllution
b)
High cost to install
c)
Number of cloudy days
d)
Use of nonrenewable resources
16.
Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Coal - What do these items have in common?
a)
They are examples of inexhaustible energy resources.
b)
They are examples of renewable energy resources.
c)
They are examples of energy resources that do not cause pollution.
d)
They are examples of nonrenewable energy resources.
17.
Which of the following energy resources is nonrenewable?
a)
Biomass
b)
Geothermal
c)
Fossil Fuel
d)
Hydropower
18.
Why is the Sun considered the ultimate energy source?
a)
The Sun is the center of our solar system.
b)
The Sun provides energy for the water cycle and plants.
c)
The Sun is limited in the amount of energy released daily.
d)
The Sun rises and sets each day as seen from Earth.
19.
Which source of energy is most likely to be depleted?
a)
Geothermal
b)
Hydropower
c)
Wind
d)
Nuclear
20.
____ power is gathered from nuclei of nuclear materials.
a)
Nuclear
b)
Natural Gas
c)
Oil
d)
Coal
21.
Nuclear power produces a large amount of energy along with a large amount of _____ that cannot easily be disposed.
a)
waste
b)
trash
c)
greenhouse
d)
radioactive
22.
What is an example of a renewable resource?
a)
hydroelectric
b)
oil
c)
coal
d)
fossil fuel
23.
Hydroelectricity and Wind Power are both indirect forms of what?
a)
Hydrogen
b)
Geothermal Energy
c)
Solar Energy
d)
Nuclear
24.
Which renewable resource gets its direct energy from the sun?
a)
Geothermal
b)
Solar
c)
Wind
d)
Hydrogen
25.
What is the most plentiful fossil fuel?
a)
Oil
b)
Natural Gas
c)
Petroleum
d)
Coal
26.
Energy we get from burning living things
a)
Hydroelectricity
b)
Wind Energy
c)
Biomass Fuel
d)
Hydrogen Power
27.
Energy we get from earth's interior heat
a)
Geothermal
b)
Solar Energy
c)
Wind Energy
d)
Hydroelectricity
28.
Oil and Natural gas are both known as types of what?
a)
Coal
b)
Geothermal Energy
c)
Renewable Resources
d)
Petroleum
29.
Both renewable and non-renewable resources give us what?
a)
Energy
b)
Pollution
c)
Heat
d)
Both Heat and Energy
30.
__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.
a)
Renewable Energy Resource
b)
Nonrenewable Energy Resource
c)
Fossil Fuel
d)
Forever Fuel
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