Lesson 2 Questions

1. Which of the following is a nonrenewable energy resource?

a. solar
b. methane
c. hydroelectric
d. coal

3. This is an example of non-polluting renewable type of energy

a. tidal
b. wind
c. solar
d. all of these

4. This group consists of non-renewable organic resources

a. Water, air and minerals

b. natural gas, oil and coal
c. wood, water and natural pastures
d. sand, air and clay

5. Most of the energy used on earth today originally came from which of these sources?

a. The sun
b. The Moon
c. Oceans
d. Soil

7. Natural resources are ______.

a. renewable.
b. non-renewable.
c. resources that exist without the actions of humankind.
d. resources produced by humans from using biotic and abiotic factors found in nature.

8. Which of the following is NOT a Natural Resource?

a. Coal c. Solar
b. Paper d. Wind

9. Renewable resources

a. can be replenished. c. are limited.

b. cannot be replenished. d. are fossil fuels.
 10. Which of the following is a renewable natural resource?

a. fossil fuel c. Gasoline

b. Nuclear energy d. Electricity

11. Nonrenewable resources

a. can be replenished. c. are not limited.

b. forms more slowly that it can be d. are not fossil fuels.
consumed.

12. Which of the following is a non-renewable natural resource?

a. Heating c. Solar
b. Cooling d. Coal

13. Natural resources used for energy are called ________

a. material resources c. natural resources
b. energy resources d. renewable resources

14. Natural resources used to make things we use are called _______

a. material resources
b. energy resources
c. natural resources
d. nonrenewable resources
 15. Energy resources can be _______
a. renewable
b. non-renewable
c. both renewable and non-renewable
d. material resources

16. Which of the following resources is collected by the panels on the roof of this home?

a. air
b. water
c. wind
d. sunlight

17. Which of the following are renewable sources of energy?

a. coal and natural gas.

b. oil and electricity.
c. sunlight and petroleum.
d. wind and water.
18. What is the source of energy that causes the blades of a
turbine to move?

a. coal
b. wind
c. water
d. sunlight

19. Which of the following is NOT a way that people can be harmful to the environment?

a. burning coal for energy c. making products from wood

b. clearing land for homes d. planting trees in a forest

20. Your family uses this type of energy to heat your home and many of you cook with this type of
energy.

a) Oil c) Solar Power

b) Coal d) Natural Gas
 21. Fossil fuels form when organic matter is buried and then exposed to heat and
pressure for millions of years. Fossil fuelsare classified as nonrenewable resources
because they –

e) take a long time to form.

f) are used to produce heat.
g) form from organic matter.
h) can be found underground.

22. Classify the following into natural resources and man-made resources:

Quartz – Natural rubber- steel – Timber – Rayon – Silver – paper –

Glass – Magnetite – Tires

Natural resource Man-made resource

Quartz Steel Tires

Natural rubber Timber
Silver Rayon
Magnetite Paper
Glass

23. Which of the following source of energy can be replenished after a short period of
time?

a. Solar energy
b. Hydro energy
c. Coal
d. Both (a) and (b)

24. A non-renewable resource is a finite resource.

 a. True
b. False

25. Natural gas is a non-renewable energy.

a. True
b. False

26. A natural resource that can be replaced in the same rate at which it is consumed or
used is known as

a. Artificial Resources
b. Natural Resources
c. Renewable Resources
d. Nonrenewable Resources
27. Which of the following energy resources is renewable?
a. Coal.
b. Hydroelectric power.
c. Natural gas.
d. Petroleum.

28. Which of the following is not a fossil fuel?

a. Coal.
b. Natural gas.
c. Petroleum.
d. Uranium

29. Which one of the following type of resource is iron ore.

a. Renewable
b. Biotic
c. Flow
d. Non-renewable

30. Trees can be classified as different kinds of resources. Which of these statements
gives a reason for classifying a tree as material resource?
a. It is a renewable resource.
b. It can be used to build a home.
c. It can be burned to provide heat.
 d. It requires energy to grow a tree.
31. A natural resource is best defined as any naturally occurring material that is which of
the following?
a. used by people
b. mined from Earth
c. unlimited in quantity
d. left untouched in nature

32. How many forms of fossil fuels are there________________

a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four

33. Which of the materials shown here could be classified as an inexhaustible natural
resource?
a. trees
b. water
c. cattle
d. sunlight

34. Coal is a natural resource. Why coal is considered nonrenewable?

a. Coal will never run out.

b. No new coal is being produced on Earth.
c. Coal is used to produce energy and not materials.
d. Coal is being used faster than it is being produced.

35. Which of these activities requires the use of a material resourcees

a. heating a home
b. manufacturing steel
c. climbing a tall mountain
d. generating an electric current

36. Trapped heat inside the earth is known as_______________

a. Heat energy
b. Kinetic energy
c. Geothermal energy
d. Thermal energy
37. Renewable source of energy is
a. Petroleum
b. Coal
c. Nuclear fuel
d. Trees

38. Which of the following answers applies to renewable natural

resources?

a. Once the renewable natural resource is used , is gone forever.

b. Renewable resources can be replenished.
c. renewable resources are costly to extract.
d. renewable resources can be, harvested at any rate without
harming future supplies.

39. Which of the following answers is non-renewable natural resource?

a. Fish and cattle.
b. Petroleum .
c. human resources.
d. All answers are correct.
40. Which of the following is a renewable resource?
a. Petroleum.
b. biological species.
c. mineral ore.
d. soil fertility

41. What is the primary difference between renewable resources and

nonrenewable resources?

a. how easily they are discovered.

b. the amount of the resource
c. the length of time it takes for them to be replenished
d. how fast they are being used up e-none of these
43. Which of the following is not a renewable resource?

a. groundwater
b. trees in a forest
c. fertile soil
d. oil
e. crops

44. all non-renewable resources can theoretically be

a. converted to nonmetallic minerals

b. converted to renewable ones
c. exhausted or depleted
d. recycled or reused
e. alive

45. Do renewable energy sources run out?

a. True
b. False
46. Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming
beneath the surface today?
a. They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.
b. They are being formed too far beneath the surface.
c. The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.
d. We are depleting the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

47. Is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years. Select
all that applies

a. Renewable Energy Resource

b. Nonrenewable Energy Resource
c. Fossil Fuels
d. Forever Fuels
48. Solar Power is a __________ energy resource.
a. Renewable
b. Nonrenewable

49. Air, water, trees, rocks and minerals, soil, coal and oil are all examples of which
type of resource?
a. Renewable resources
 b. Nonrenewable resources
c. Natural resources
d. Inexhaustible resources

50. The diagram shows how people’s choices affect the supply of new and recycled
aluminum used to make cans.
What is most likely to happen if people recycle
aluminum?

Fewer people will buy products in aluminum

cans.
More aluminum cans will end up in landfills.
Less aluminum from mines will be used in cans.
Cans will contain less recycled aluminum.

51. Water is considered which type of resource?

a. inexhaustible
b. renewable
c. nonrenewable

52. Sunlight, water, and wind are examples of inexhaustible forms of energy. What does
inexhaustible mean?

a. We will run out at any minute.

b. We will never run out.
c. We will run out in 100 years.
d. We will run out in 20 years.

53. Non-renewable or Renewable: Wood

a. Non-renewable
b. Renewable

54. What happens when a nonrenewable resource is used up?

a. It is replaced quickly by natural processes.

b. It is gone forever or takes millions of years to replenish.
c. It gets recycled immediately.
d. It turns into a renewable resource.

55. Which energy source is considered the cleanest and most sustainable?
 a. Oil
b. Wind energy
c. Coal
d. Natural gas

56. Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel?

a. Coal
b. Oil
c. Natural gas
d. Wind energy
57. What is the main characteristic of a nonrenewable resource?
a. It can be replaced quickly by natural processes.
b. It is never used up.
c. It takes millions of years to form.
d. It does not produce energy.

58. Fuel cells convert chemical energy from __________ to produce electrical energy.

a. Oxygen
b. Hydrogen

59. Your body converts the chemical energy in food to kinetic energy as well as
thermal energy.

a. True
b. False

60. _____________ are examples of fossil fuels.

a. Coal
b. Oil
c. Natural gas
d. All of the above

61. __________ are non-renewable resource

a. Iron
b. Oil
c. Sand
d. All of the above
 62. ___________ are renewable resource

a. Rubber
b. Leather
c. Wood
d. All of the above
63. What characteristic do all renewable resources share?
a. Produced by waste products
b. Form underground from dead organisms.
c. Replaced in a short period of time
d. Allow energy to pass through them easily

64. Petroleum and natural gas form from...

a. strong winds
b. cooled magma
c. radioactive materials
d. remains of plants and animals

65. Hydroelectric power produces electricity using.....

a. Wind
b. Sunlight
c. Moving water
d. Dung

66. Energy from the sun is known as.........

a. hydroelectric energy
b. geothermal energy
c. solar energy
d. wind energy

67. The energy resource that is most affected by change in weather is_____________?
a. geothermal
b. wind
c. nuclear
d. natural gas

68. The cleanest burning fossil fuel is ______.

a. coal
b. oil
c. wind
 d. natural gas

69. What is biomass?

a. energy from the sun
b. energy from water
c. energy from wind
d. energy from plant and animal waste

70. What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

a. Coal, Oil, and Gasoline
b. Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
c. Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
d. Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources

71. Geothermal energy is energy from

a. the sun
b. heat from deep in the earth
c. wind
d. inexhaustable
72. Which of the following sources of energy is classified as an alternative energy source?
a. Mined coal
b. Geothermal heat
c. Crude oil
d. Natural gas

8. gasoline engines break the bonds in gasoline to convert kinetic energy to potential
energy.
a. true
b. false

9. generators in electric power plants converts _____ to _____.

a. electric energy to kinetic energy
b. kinetic energy to electric energy
c. kinetic energy to potential energy
d. potential energy to chemical energy

10. when your body digests food to give you energy to move, it converts ____ energy to
_____ energy.
a. electric energy to kinetic energy
b. kinetic energy to chemical energy
c. kinetic energy to potential energy
d. Chemical energy to kinetic energy
1. when a natural resource is used up faster than it can be replaced. it is because _____.

a) the resource forms very slowly.

b) it can be replaced in a short amount of time.
c) the resource forms very quickly.
d) a and b

2. Which of the following is NOT a Natural Resource?

a) cotton c) steel
b) natural rubber d) iron

3. Geothermal energy is a nonrenewable energy resource in which the heat from under the
ground is used to produce energy.

a) true. b) false.

4. Which of the following is an inexhaustible natural resource?

a) Solar energy c) Gasoline

b) water d) Electricity

5. oil is a ____ which is used to make ______.

a) renewable resource, glass

b) nonrenewable resource, plastic
c) renewable resource, plastic
d) nonrenewable resource, glass

6. All of the following are forms of fossil fuels except _____.

a) coal c) natural gas

b) oil d) underground water

7. trees can be classified as different kinds of resources. which of these statements gives a
reason for classifying a tree as an energy resource?

a) it is renewable resource. c) it can be burned to provide heat.

b) it can be used to build a home. d) it requires energy to grow a tree.