Renewable & Non-renewable

What is a renewable resource?

• Energy sources that are used up faster than can be replaced within a human time scale.

• Natural processes that need a short period of time to renew.

• A resource that will never run out.

What is a non-renewable resource?

• Energy sources that are used up faster than can be replaced within a human time scale.

• Natural processes that need a short period of time to renew.

• A resource that will never run out.

What is an inexhaustible resource?

• Energy sources that are used up faster than can be replaced within a human time scale.

• Natural processes that need a short period of time to renew.

• A resource that will never run out.

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Fossil Fuels are the main sources of non-renewable resources.

• False

• True

What is coal?

• Most abundant fossil fuel, a rock that contains at least 50% plant remains.

• Thick, black liquid hydrocarbon formed from buried remains of marine organisms.

• Gaseous hydrocarbon that forms above oil, since gas is lighter.

• It is produced from the splitting of uranium atoms. Highly radioactive.

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What is Nuclear energy?

• Most abundant fossil fuel, a rock that contains at least 50% plant remains.

• Thick, black liquid hydrocarbon formed from buried remains of marine organisms.

• Gaseous hydrocarbon that forms above oil, since gas is lighter.

• It is produced from the splitting of uranium atoms. Highly radioactive.

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What is natural gas?

• Most abundant fossil fuel, a rock that contains at least 50% plant remains.

• Thick, black liquid hydrocarbon formed from buried remains of marine organisms.

• Gaseous hydrocarbon that forms above oil, since gas is lighter.

• It is produced from the splitting of uranium atoms. Highly radioactive.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

What is oil?

• Most abundant fossil fuel, a rock that contains at least 50% plant remains.

• Thick, black liquid hydrocarbon formed from buried remains of marine organisms.

• Gaseous hydrocarbon that forms above oil, since gas is lighter.

• It is produced from the splitting of uranium atoms. Highly radioactive.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

An inexhaustible energy source is sun, wind, water,

and geothermal energy since these resources will never run out.

• False

• True

Solar energy is energy from the...

• sun

• wind

• water

• hot magma

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