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If more wind is blowing on a windmill, ___________ energy will be made for electricity.
What is more?
Natural gas is a ______________ energy resource that can be found in the ground.
What is nonrenewable?
Electricity produced with the help of flowing water is called _________________.
What is hydroelectricity?
Some calculators do not need batteries because it runs on ___________________.
What is solar power?
What is an example of biomass?
A. wood
B. rocks
C. glass bottles
What is wood?
To gather the most wind power, where would be the best location to place a windmill?
What is on the top of a hill?
What is one disadvantage of hydroelectricity?
What is a source of rushing water?
This nonrenewable energy resource is found beneath the Earth's surface and below the ocean floor.
What is crude oil?
Give two examples of a renewable resource.
What is trees, water, sun, wind, and geothermal?
The supply of something to meet someone's need is called a ____________________.
What is resource?
Plants and animals that died long ago is what created fossil fuels.
TRUE or FALSE
What is true?
This resource can be naturally restored or at least replenished quickly enough as it is needed.
A. Nonrenewable resource
B. Renewable reource
C. Excellent resource
What is renewable resource.
This natural resource, once consumed, cannot be renewed in a relatively quick period of time.
What is nonrenewable resource?
This gas is emitted when fossil fuels are burned.
What is carbon dioxide?
This country is the world leader in using renewable energy.
A. United States
B. Canada
C. China
D. Sweden
What is China?
This fossil fuel is nonrenewable and is found beneath the Earth's surface and below the ocean floor.
What is crude oil?
A natural resource that can be naturally restored, or at least replenished, as quickly as it is needed.
What is renewable resource?
Nuclear power plants Minnesota has is _______.
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
What is 2?
Name one disadvantage of using fossil fuels.
What is they pollute the air?
Renewable resources provide ______ percent of Minnesota's electricity including wind, solar, hydro, and biomass.
A. 28%
B. 33%
C. 41%
D. 48%
What is 33%?
Oil, natural gas, and coal, that are formed from the decomposition of ancient organisms, mostly plant material, but some animal material as well; a fuel found in the Earth that was formed millions of years ago.
What is fossil fuels?
A fossil fuel that is nonrenewable and is found at different depths of the Earth.
What is coal?
A fuel source composed of biological material, or materials from organisms that were once alive (for example, plants and trees, animal waste, and food waste.
What is biomass?
Heat from the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
A resource that is made out of plants and animals that died long ago; a nonrenewable fossil fuel.
What is natural gas?