__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.
Renewable Energy Resource
Nonrenewable Energy Resource
Fossil Fuels
Forever Fuels
5. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
__________ 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
6. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Coal is a __________ energy resource.
Renewable
Nonrenewable
7. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.
Renewable
Nonrenewable
8. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.
Renewable
Nonrenewable
9. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Oil is a __________ energy resource.
Renewable
Nonrenewable
10. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Geothermal Power is a __________ energy resource.
Renewable
Nonrenewable
11. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Wind is a __________ energy resource.
Renewable
Nonrenewable
12. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
Non-renewable or Renewable: Corn
Renewable
Non-Renewable
13. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
Non-renewable or Renewable: Water
Renewable
Non-Renewable
14. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
Non-renewable or Renewable: Animals
Renewable
Non-Renewable
15. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
Non-renewable or Renewable: Wind
Renewable
Non-Renewable
16. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
Non-renewable or Renewable: Wood
Non-renewable
Renewable
17. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
Non-renewable or Renewable: Coal
Renewable
Non-Renewable
18. Multiple Choice
10 seconds
1 pt
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
19. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
The 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.
20. Multiple Choice
10 seconds
1 pt
Why 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.
21. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
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
22. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
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
23. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
When you turn off the water between washing dishes, which conservation effort are you practicing?
reducing
reusing
recycling
all of the above
24. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
Hydroelectric 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".
25. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
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
26. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
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.
27. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
What do we call large areas of windmills?
Wind farms
Hurricanes
Turbines
Wind tunnels
28. Multiple Choice
10 seconds
1 pt
Energy that uses heat that comes from within the Earth is called
Geophysical
Geography
Geothermal
Geographic
29. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
What percentage of our energy use comes from fossil fuels?
25%
45%
61%
86%
30. Multiple Choice
10 seconds
1 pt
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.