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- 1. Multiple Choice
What percentage of our energy use comes from fossil fuels?25%45%61%86% - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a non renewable resource?waterwindcoalbiomass
- 3. Multiple ChoiceDo renewable energy sources run out?YesNo
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the best pro about renewable resources?The are inexpensiveThey are always availableThey are expensiveThey create pollution
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhy 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.
- 6. Multiple Choice__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.Renewable Energy ResourceNonrenewable Energy ResourceFossil FuelsForever Fuels
- 7. Multiple Choice__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.Renewable Energy ResourceNonrenewable Energy ResourceFossil FuelForever Fuel
- 8. Multiple ChoiceCoal is a __________ energy resource.RenewableNonrenewable
- 9. Multiple ChoiceSolar Power is a __________ energy resource.RenewableNonrenewable
- 10. Multiple ChoiceNatural Gas is a __________ energy resource.RenewableNonrenewable
- 11. Multiple ChoiceOil is a __________ energy resource.RenewableNonrenewable
- 12. Multiple ChoiceGeothermal Power is a __________ energy resource.RenewableNonrenewable
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWind is a __________ energy resource.RenewableNonrenewable
- 14. Multiple ChoiceNon-renewable or Renewable: CornRenewableNon-Renewable
- 15. Multiple ChoiceNon-renewable or Renewable: WaterRenewableNon-Renewable
- 16. Multiple ChoiceNon-renewable or Renewable: AnimalsRenewableNon-Renewable
- 17. Multiple ChoiceNon-renewable or Renewable: WindRenewableNon-Renewable
- 18. Multiple ChoiceNon-renewable or Renewable: WoodNon-renewableRenewable
- 19. Multiple ChoiceNon-renewable or Renewable: CoalRenewableNon-Renewable
- 20. Multiple ChoiceAir, water, trees, rocks and minerals, soil, coal and oil are all examples of which type of resource?Renewable resourcesNonrenewable resourcesNatural resourcesInexhaustible resources
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe diagram shows how people’s choices affect the supply of new and recycled aluminum used to make cans.
What is most likely to happen if people recycle aluminum?Fewer people will buy products in aluminum cans.More aluminum cans will end up in landfills.Less aluminum from mines will be used in cans.a. Cans will contain less recycled aluminum. - 22. Multiple ChoiceWater is considered which type of resource?inexhaustiblerenewablenonrenewable
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhy are fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas called nonrenewable resources?a. They can never be replaced.a. They cannot be easily replaced.a. They can be recycled.a. They can be made in factories.
- 24. Multiple ChoiceSome 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?biomasswindsolar energygeothermal energy
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these is a practice that sustains or conserves natural resources?leaving the TV on all day
leaving the TV on all dayfilling the bathtub to the toprecycling cansburning newspapers - 26. Multiple ChoiceWhen you turn off the water between washing dishes, which conservation effort are you practicing?reducingreusingrecyclingall of the above
- 27. Multiple ChoiceHydroelectric power plants can cause disruptions to ecosystems. What steps have been taken to help keep fish populations in balance?Scientists have added more bears to the area.Scientists have removed all bears from the area.They posted no fishing signs.They added "fish ladders".
- 28. Multiple ChoiceMost 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?HydroelectricWindSolarCoal
- 29. Multiple ChoiceSunlight, 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.
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWhat do we call large areas of windmills?Wind farmsHurricanesTurbinesWind tunnels
- 31. Multiple ChoiceEnergy that uses heat that comes from within the Earth is calledGeophysicalGeographyGeothermalGeographic
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