1. Which of the following resources is a renewable resource?
a. Coal
b. Trees
c. Oil
d. Natural gas
What is
b. trees
100
This is a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago.
What are fossil fuels?
100
These are the liquid, solid, and gas fossil fuels (in that order).
What are petroleum, coal, and natural gas?
100
Which of the following is an alternative to using fossil fuels?
a. using solar power
b. using natural gas to heat homes
c. burning coal
d. using kerosene extracted from petroleum
What is
a. using solar power
100
This is the use of the radiation energy from the sun.
What is solar energy or solar power?
200
This is an example of a non-renewable resource.
What is . . .
200
This is commonly known as "crude oil," but it can be separated into gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel, and fuel oil.
What is petroleum?
200
This fossil fuel has formed from decayed sea life. It is used mostly for heating and may also be used in a kitchen stove. It is very flammable.
What is natural gas?
200
This is a mixture of gasoline and alcohol that is used for fuel.
What is gasohol?
200
This is the use of a windmill to drive an electric generator and crate power.
What is wind energy/power?
300
These are 2 examples of products that can be recycled.
What is . . . .
300
This fossil fuel is formed underground from partially decomposed plant material (swamp plants).
What is coal?
300
People do NOT obtain fossil fuels by
a. strip mining.
b. surface mining.
c. drilling wells.
d. growing them as crops.
What is
d. growing them as crops
300
This is organic matter that can be a source of energy.
What is biomass?
300
This is electrical energy produced by falling water.
What is hydroelectric energy/ hydropower?
400
What is the difference between a renewable resource and a non-renewable resource?
What is renewable resources can be made at the same rate that they are used. Non-renewable resources are replaced at a slower rate?
400
Burning fossil fuels can affect the rain in this way.
What is acid precipitation?
400
This is one negative effect of using fossil fuels. . .
What is. . .
400
This the energy produced by burning a fossil fuel formed millions of years ago from the remains of decayed swamp plants.
What is coal power or fossil fuel energy?
400
This is the energy produced by heat within Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
500
These are the 3 ways that humans can conserve natural resources.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
500
In the 1800s and early 1900s coal was most commonly used for this.
What is
coal was used to power trains.
500
Burning petroleum products can cause this photochemical haze that forms when sunlight acts with pollutants.
What is smog?
500
This is the energy released by a fission reaction to create electricity.
What is nuclear energy?
500
This is the energy released when a chemical compound reacts to produce new compounds, like in a hydrogen powered car.