Nonrenewable vs Renewable Resources

Air, water, trees, rocks and minerals, soil, coal and oil are all examples of which type of resource?

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Natural resources

• Inexhaustible resources

Why are fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas called nonrenewable resources?

• They can never be replaced

• They cannot be easily replaced

• They can be recycled

• They can be made in factories.

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

What do we call large areas of windmills?

• Wind farms

• Hurricanes

• Turbines

• Wind tunnels

Coal is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

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

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

• Fossil Fuel

• Forever Fuel

Do renewable energy sources run out?

• yes

• no

What is a non renewable resource?

• water

• wind

• coal

• biomass

Wind energy

• is less expensive than fossil fuels

• is difficult to utilize in areas with low wind availability

• is a renewable source of energy

• utilizes small or large areas of land not previously used

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Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Coal - What do these items have in common?

• They are examples of inexhaustible energy resources.

• They are examples of renewable energy resources.

• They are examples of energy resources that do not cause pollution.

• They are examples of nonrenewable energy resources.