Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

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

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non renewable resources

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Geothermal energy uses heat from ____ to produce electricity.

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the earth

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What are fossil fuels?

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coal, oil, natural gas

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

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nuclear

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Energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

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Renewable Energy Resource

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What characteristic do all renewable resources share?

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Replaced in a reasonably short time period

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When energy from the sun is used to heat something directly (with no moving parts), it is called...

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passive solar heating

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What is the term for the technology that generates electricity when sunlight in semiconductors, causing them to move?

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photovoltaic cells

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Purpose of wind turbines in a windmill

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For rotating and making kinetic energy into mechanical energy

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What is one disadvantage of using water power?

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Dams are expensive to build