Renewable Rebels
These energy sources are replenished in a short period of time.
What are renewable energy sources
What are nonrenewable energy sources?
This solid, black fossil fuel formed from plants that died millions of years ago.
What is coal?
I am the fuel used by most nuclear power plants.
What is uranium (235)?
The majority of our (the United States') energy is generated from?
What is natural gas (over 40%)?
This energy source comes from the force of moving water.
What is hydropower?
In the United States, most of our energy comes from this group of resources.
What are nonrenewable energy sources?
This fossil fuel is also know as crude oil.
What is petroleum?
I am any organic matter, like wood or yard waste, used for energy.
What is biomass?
These two renewable energy sources are said to be intermittent.
What are wind and solar?
This energy is harvested from the heat found within the earth.
What is geothermal energy?
Name three nonrenewable energy sources.
What are coal, natural gas, petroleum, propane, uranium?
This colorless, odorless gas is made mostly of methane.
What is natural gas?
I travel to the Earth as radiant energy.
What is solar?
This can be mined from deep in the Earth or close to the surface.
What is coal?
Renewable energy sources are used by humans mainly for this purpose.
What is making electricity?
This is the process of splitting atoms apart to release energy.
What is nuclear fission?
Coal was formed hundreds of millions of years ago from these.
What are plants (that lived and died)?
I am energy in the air.
What is wind?
Hank, this can be compressed into tanks for grilling food.
What is propane?
Any organic matter that can be used as an energy sources, such as wood or crops.
What is biomass?
This is a fossil fuel that looks like a thick, black liquid.
What is petroleum (oil)?
This is a colorless and odorless gas is refined from petroleum and natural gas.
What is propane?
I am energy from the heat within the Earth.
What is geothermal?
This is the name of the closest nuclear power plant in Ohio.
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