Renewable Energy Sustainability

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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What are two advantages of geothermal energy?

• cheap and a lot pollution

• expensive and a lot of pollution

• cheap and little pollution

• expensive and little pollution

One benefit of geothermal energy is that ________________________________.

• a plant can be built ANYWHERE

• it doesn't cost a lot of money to build

• it can provide power 24 hours a day

• it harms ecosystems where it's built

Why are not American's roofs crammed with more solar panels? 

• They are ugly.

• They are uninformed.

• Expensive start-up cost

• People enjoy paying bills. 

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How does biomass reduce our carbon footprint by producing less CO2 than fossil fuels?

• Plants absorb the same amount of CO2 that is released when it is burned.

• Plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere and put it permanently into the ground.

• Biomass filters CO2 to make it more environmentally stable.

• Biomass doesn't release any CO2 when burned.

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Which of the following energy sources has the lowest negative environmental impacts?

• Biomass

• Nuclear

• Natural Gas

• Solar

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a downside to relying on biomass as a primary fuel source for a nation is that

• it can cause soil erosion, water pollution, and habitat loss

• it requires little land use

• it produces no pollution

• it produces more pollution than coal 

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Making sure that people have what they need today, but also that the next generations have what they need, too.

• conservation

• sustainability

• non renewable

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The sun's energy

• renewable

• non-renewable

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