Renewable Sources of Energy

The energy we use to function in our everyday lives can be classified as...

• Renewable or non-renewable

• Natural or non-renewable

• Renewable and Natural

• All of them

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Why is solar energy considered renewable energy?

• It's cheaper than fossil fuels
• The sun's energy would not run out for billions of years
  
• Solar energy recharges batteries
• All of them

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Renewable energy resources produce less_____________ than fossil fuels.

• pollution

• energy

• wind

• light

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_____________ power is electricity produced by flowing water.

• Solar 
• Wind 
• Hydroelectric 
• water

What is a renewable resource?

• A resource you can reuse over and over

• An object you cannot replace

• Fossil fuels

• A resource that has a nearly unlimited supply

Wind Energy is...

•  Energy that comes from harnessing the movement of the air
• Energy that comes from the Sun
• A source of renewable energy, such as solar, wind, or geothermal energy
• Fuel from plant material

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The house illustrated here uses panels on the roof to collect a natural resource and convert it into electricity that can be used.
Which alternative energy source does this house use?

• Water
• Wind
• Solar
• Geothermal

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Water is renewable because it.......

• can be frozen
• important to all life
• can be replaced constantly
• can evaporate

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__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

Hyrdo Power is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable