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WorksheetsTEKS 6.7A Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 50mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are renewable resources?
a)
Resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time
b)
Resources that are used faster than they can be replaced
c)
They can not be replaced
2.
What are Nonrenewable resources?
a)
Resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time
b)
Resources that are used faster than they can be replaced
c)
Resources America does not use
3.
Name Two examples of Nonrenewable resources?
a)
Coal and Oil
b)
Biomass and Wind Turbines
c)
Tidal and Geothermal
4.
Name two examples of Renewable energy?
a)
Coal and Nuclear
b)
Oil and Gas
c)
Solar Panels and Hydroelectric
5.
Define Solar Energy
a)
Heat energy from inside the Earth
b)
Energy Created by burning plant and animal wastes
c)
Energy from the sun
6.
Define Biomass energy:
a)
Energy created by burning plant and animal wastes
b)
Energy created by tides and dams
c)
Uses “farms”
7.
Define Geothermal energy
a)
Created by burning plant and animal wastes
b)
Energy from the sun
c)
Heat energy from inside the Earth
8.
Define Water energy:
a)
Energy from the sun
b)
Created by tides and dams
9.
What are renewable resources?
a)
A limited amount and cannot be replaced in a human life time.
b)
Plastic bags
c)
Coal, oil, and natural gas
d)
Can be replaced in our lifetime through natural processes
10.
Sunlight is...
a)
Very bright
b)
Will eventually run out soon
c)
A renewable resource
d)
A nonrenewable resource
11.
Wood is...
a)
A renewable resource
b)
A nonrenewable resource
c)
Used to make oil
d)
Used to make plastic
12.
A group of non-renewable resources, called ______________, include coal, oil, and natural gas.
a)
Fossils
b)
Energy
c)
Resources
d)
Fossil fuels
13.
Coal comes from...
a)
from animals that died millions of years ago.
b)
from plants that died millions of years ago.
c)
A factory
d)
Burning fossil fuels
14.
How can we conserve energy?
a)
use less coal, oil, and natural gas.
b)
use fabric bags instead of plastic.
c)
use public transportation instead of driving a car.
d)
All of the above
15.
How so we get energy from the sun?
a)
Sunlight can generate electricity straight from the sky.
b)
Solar panels use the sun to power turbines.
c)
Solar panels can convert sunlight into electrical energy.
d)
Solar panels generate their own electricity.
16.
What is geothermal energy?
a)
A power plant.
b)
Heat energy generated and stored in the Earth.
c)
Nuclear Energy
d)
A nonrenewable resource
17.
__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.
a)
Renewable Energy Resource
b)
Nonrenewable Energy Resource
18.
__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.
a)
Renewable Energy Resource
b)
Nonrenewable Energy Resource
19.
Coal is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
20.
Hyrdo Power is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
21.
Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
22.
Nuclear Power is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
23.
Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
24.
The sun is the source of all energy on Earth.
a)
true
b)
false
25.
__________is the energy generated from the sun by using solar panels.
a)
Wind
b)
Hydro
c)
Nuclear
d)
Solar
26.
The energy of nuclear reactions between atoms that creates heat and turns turbines is _________.
a)
Coal
b)
Wind
c)
Hydro
d)
Nuclear
27.
__________is the energy created by wind turning wind turbines.
a)
Geothermal
b)
Hydro
c)
Wind
d)
Nuclear
28.
__________is a gas found under the Earth’s surface and is used to produce energy by burning it.
a)
Geothermal
b)
Natural Gas
c)
Coal
d)
Nuclear
29.
_________is energy generated when moving water turns turbines.
a)
Wind
b)
Hydro
c)
Geothermal
d)
Solar
30.
__________uses heat from the interior of the Earth. We will be using this at our new school!
a)
Solar
b)
Geothermal
c)
Nucler
d)
Wind
31.
Wind is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
32.
Geothermal Power is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
33.
Which resource below is RENEWABLE?
a)
copper
b)
wind
c)
sulfer
d)
petroleum
34.
What type of energy resource is wind?
a)
Nonrenewable
b)
Renewable
c)
Exhaustible
35.
These are examples of a Fossil fuel - fuels produced by deposits of ancient plants and animals
a)
wind,solar,geothermal
b)
oil,coal,natural gas
c)
wind,biofuels,geothermal
36.
What type of renewable resource am I? Waste products like trees, plants, grains, algae, manure, garbage, sewage, and paper can be converted into energy by burning.
a)
Nonrenewable
b)
Geothermal
c)
Biomass
d)
Solar energy
37.
What type of renewable energy am I? Force of falling water turns giant turbines to create electricity and found inside of dams.
a)
geothermal
b)
biofuels
c)
hydroelectric
d)
solar
38.
What type of renewable energy am I? I convert the sun's rays into electricity.
a)
wind
b)
biofuels
c)
geothermal
d)
solar
39.
What type of renewable energy am I? I turn water into steam which escapes through cracks in the Earth as well as forms geysers and hot springs.
a)
biofuels
b)
hydroelectric
c)
geothermal
d)
wind
40.
What type of renewable resource am I? I power large turbine generators that generate electricity.
a)
solar
b)
geothermal
c)
biofuels
d)
wind
41.
__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.
a)
Renewable Energy Resource
b)
Nonrenewable Energy Resource
42.
Coal is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
43.
Hyrdo Power is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
44.
Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
45.
Nuclear Power is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
46.
Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
47.
Oil is a __________ energy resource.
a)
Renewable
b)
Nonrenewable
48.
__________is the energy generated from the sun by using solar panels.
a)
Wind
b)
Hydro
c)
Nuclear
d)
Solar
49.
A disadvantage of solar energy is
a)
that the clouds can block the sunlight
b)
it is not available at night
c)
that the clouds can block the sunlight and it is not available at night
d)
the sun is too hot to be absorbed in solar panels
50.
Conservation is
a)
the practice of increasing the use of natural resources in order to use them
b)
the practice of increasing the use of natural resources in order to save them
c)
the practice of decreasing the use of natural resources in order to use them
d)
the practice of decreasing the use of natural resources in order to save them
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