Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?

• They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.
• They are being formed too far beneath the surface.
• The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.
• We are depleting the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

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Coal is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Geothermal Power is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Non-renewable or Renewable: Water

• Renewable
• Non-Renewable

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Some power plants pump water down deep holes into hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth’s surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource?

• biomass
• wind
• solar energy
• geothermal energy

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Which of these is a practice that sustains or conserves natural resources?

• leaving the TV on all day
  leaving the TV on all day
• filling the bathtub to the top
• recycling cans
• burning newspapers

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Most forms of renewable energy produce a small amount of pollution from the generators that help to produce electricity. Which form of energy below does not use a turbine and generator for electricity?

• Hydroelectric
• Wind
• Solar
• Coal

Sunlight, water, and wind are examples of inexhaustible forms of energy.  What does inexhaustible mean?

• We will run out at any minute.
• We will never run out.
• We will run out in 100 years.
• We will run out in 20 years.