Energy Resources

Why is biomass a renewable energy resource?

• Because plant materials and farm wastes will always come back

• Because it is not burned

• Biomass is actually non-renewable

• Because it comes from the Sun

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Which of the following best explains where body heat comes from?

• Body heat is not a real thing

• Body heat is the waste heat from your body turning chemical energy in food into mechanical energy to move you around

• Friction from moving through air anytime you move

• It just appears

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What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy resources?

• Renewable energy sources will run out, non-renewable energy sources will not

• Renewable energy sources create a lot of pollution, non-renewable energy sources create very little

• Renewable energy sources come from fuels removed from the Earth, non-renewable energy resources are not

• Renewable energy sources will not run out, non-renewable energy sources will

Which of the following BEST explains why fossil fuel supplies are limited?

• People are not allowed to use large amounts of fossil fuels

• Only small amounts of fossil fuels ever formed, and early humans used most of the available supply

• Fossil fuels formed over millions of years and they are being used more quickly than they can be replaced

• Fossil fuels exist in very large quantities, but they are difficult for scientists to locate

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Which of the following is a reason why we cannot rely entirely on NON-RENEWABLE energy resources?

• They cause very little pollution

• They will run out

• They can only be used near water supplies

• They cannot be used in all weather conditions

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Which of these changes happens when you run?

• Chemical energy is changed to mechanical energy

• Your body makes new energy

• Energy is used up and lost

• Mechanical energy is changed to chemical energy

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A generator converts _______________ energy from a turbine to electrical energy.

• Thermal

• Chemical

• Mechanical

• Solar

When moving air strikes the blades of a wind turbine, it causes the blades to turn. What form of energy do the moving blades have?

• chemical

• electrical

• thermal

• mechanical

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Your body converts __________________ into mechanical energy.

• Mechanical energy

• Electrical energy

• Solar energy

• Chemical energy

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The ability to cause a change in something is known as:

• work

• energy

• causation

• power

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