Fossil Fuels
Renewable Energy
Potpourri
7th Grade Science
Random Trivia
100

This fossil fuel is formed in areas that were once large swamp forests.

What is coal?

100
Renewable energy that uses the sun to generate power.

What is solar energy?

100

A resource that replenishes faster than we use it.

What is a renewable resource?

100

The three types of rocks.

What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?

100

What is the name of the wizarding school Harry Potter attends?

Hogwarts

200

Over hundred of millions of years, heat and pressure change buried marine organisms into this fossil fuel.

What is petroleum (oil) or natural gas? 

200

Two disadvantages of hydroelectric power.

What are dams are expensive to build and can damage the environment?

200

Freshwater is considered both of these types of resources.

What is renewable and non-renewable?

200

Heat and pressure make this rock type.

What is metamorphic?

200

What is the main sport featured in the movie "Space Jam"?

Basketball

300

The "cleanest" burning of the 3 fossil fuels.

What is a natural gas?

300

This type of renewable energy is ideal in flat, elevated locations, as well as waterways, and valleys.

What is wind energy?

300

The three main types of fossil fuels.

What are petroleum (oil), natural gas, and coal?

300

These are 2 forces that drive the rock cycle.

What are the sun, convection currents inside Earth, gravity (name 2)?

300

What is the name of the protagonist in "The Hunger Games" series?

Katniss Everdeen

400

2 disadvantages/cons of using fossil fuels.

What are they cause pollution, drilling/mining for them can be dangerous, drilling/mining for them can be harmful to the environment around them, they are nonrenewable.

400

Geothermal energy can be harnessed for energy production by transferring energy from hot rocks to this resource.

What is water?

400

The main cause of soil degradation.

What is overgrazing? (Because it increases erosion of the richest soil)

400

Using resources responsibly so they are available for generations.

What is sustainably?

400

What is the only mammal capable of flight?

Bat

500

The large oil reserves in the middle of the US tell us that this must have been present there in the past.

What is a sea?

500

An aquifer is discovered underground. City planners want to use it to generate electricity. This energy source should also be found nearby to heat the underground water.

What is geothermal energy?

500

This type of nonrenewable resource is mined, causing toxic pollutants to be released into the nearby environment, including the groundwater, and is limited- the Earth does not make more of it.

What is copper ore?

500

Copper ore is mainly formed where this is happening.

What is where tectonic plates collide and magma rises?

500

Which K-pop group became a global sensation with hits like "Dynamite" and "Butter"?

BTS

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