Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

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What are renewable resources?

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Can be replaced in our lifetime through natural processes.

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Are trees renewable resources?

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True.

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What is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years?

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Nonrenewable Energy Resource.

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Where does most of Earth's energy come from?

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The sun.

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What energy source requires the movement of water?

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Hydro.

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What are nonrenewable resources?

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Resources that cannot be replaced in a human lifetime.

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Give an example of a renewable resource.

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Wind energy.

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What is solar energy?

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Energy from the sun that can be converted into electricity.

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What is biomass?

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Organic material that comes from plants and animals, used as a renewable energy source.

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What is geothermal energy?

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Energy derived from the heat of the earth.