Energy Resources and Pollution 2020

Check all the inexhaustible resources.

• Solar energy

• Wind energy

• Biomass

• Natural Gas

• Geothermal

Select all the RENEWABLE resources.

• Coal

• Hydroelectric

• Biomass

• Nuclear

• Oil

Select NONRENEWABLE resources.

• Nuclear

• Biomass

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural gas

What is NOT an advantage of solar energy?

• Energy is free from the sun.

• The sun's energy doesn't produce greenhouse gases.

• Cloudy weather and night time prevent enough electricity from being made.

• The sun will always be there during our lifetime.

What is a disadvantage of solar energy?

• Solar panels are expensive to build.

• The energy from the sun doesn't produce greenhouse gases.

• Energy from the sun is free.

• The sun will always exist during our lifetime.

Select the ones that DO NOT produce greenhouse gases.

• Geothermal

• Wind

• Solar

• Hydroelectric

• Nuclear

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A renewable fuel that is cheap and uses things we throw away is

• biomass fuel.

• solar energy.

• hydroelectric energy.

• geothermal energy.

Disadvantages of ______ energy include being expensive to build, floods many areas where they are built which affects wildlife.

• Biomass

• Hydroelectric

• Solar

• Wind

Uses heat inside the earth, but are limited to places that can be built and sometimes harmful gases and minerals come up from the ground below when producing _____ energy.

• Biomass

• Solar

• Hydroelectric

• Geothermal

• Wind

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What is an ADVANTAGE of hydroelectric energy?

• Expensive to build

• Floods areas being where being built

• Kills wildlife

• Made from a free resource and is renewable