Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy and Sustainability

What is an example of a renewable resource?

• hydroelectric

• oil

• coal

• fossil fuel

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What is a non renewable resource?

• water

• wind

• coal

• biomass

What percentage of our energy use comes from fossil fuels?

• 25%

• 45%

• 61%

• 86%

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Why don't we use solar energy or geothermal energy as much as we could?

• The sun and geothermal energy are limited.

• The sun and geothermal are too weak in certain areas.

• The set-up cost is too expensive.

• The machines are too large.

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Human activities affect the supply and quality of resources including . . . 

• land
• air
• water
• all of these

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__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

• water

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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.

Where does most of earth`s energy come from?

• The sun
• Mars
• Wind
• Water

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What is a fossil fuel?

• oil
• biomass
• wind 
• hydro

Fossil fuels are Renewable resources. True or False?

• True
• False