Renewable Resources
Non-Renewable Resources
Renewable or Non Renewable Energy?
Climate change
Vocabulary
100

 Radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies.

What is solar energy?

100

The use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat

What is nuclear energy?

100

Water flowing downstream.

What is renewable?

100

When we exhale we give off C02. What are three other producers of Carbon Dioxide. 

What are decomposing materials, burning wood, volcanoes, vehicles, factories, any equipment that runs on fossil fuels. 

100

A nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago; an example includes oil, coal, and natural gas.

What is a fossil fuel?

200

A natural resource that can be used multiple times.

What is a renewable resource?

200

A substance that is being used up more quickly than it can replace itself.

What is a non-renewable resource?

200

Coal

What is non-renewable?

200

During Photosynthesis, plants take in _________ and _______ and use energy from the _____to make sugar and oxygen. 

Carbon dioxide, water, sun


200

A way to live that ensures we do not take more than we need and we replace or restore what was used. 

What is sustainability?

300

A form of energy that harnesses the power of water in motion.

What is hydroelectric energy?

300

A liquid that is made up of ancient things that were once living.

What is oil/gas energy?

300

Aluminum

What is non-renewable resource?

300

Greenhouse gases......

water vapour, Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide

300

The use of water to provide mechanical power?

What is water energy?

400

Energy that is generated or produced by living or once-living organisms.

What is biomass energy?

400

A flammable black or brownish-black rock with a high amount of carbon and hydrocarbons.

What is coal energy?

400

Using wood to heat your home.

What is renewable resource?

400

What are two results of the greenhouse effect? 

Global warming leading to melting of the ice bergs, changing weather, changing animal behaviour, ect. 


400

What is geothermal energy most useful for?

Heating and cooling, as it depends on the internal temperatures of the planet. 


500

Thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.

What is geothermal energy?

500

A non-renewable hydrocarbon used as a source of energy for heating, cooking, and electricity generation.

What is natural gas energy?

500

Minerals

What is non-renewable?

500
Explain the greenhouse effect?

When there is too much greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, it acts like a greenhouse or a blanket, trapping heat. This warms the earth. 

500

Nuclear energy uses the mineral __________. When these atoms split apart in a reactor they produce lots of _______. 

Uranium, Heat