Renewable and Non Renewable Energy Resources

Learn about renewable and nonrenewable energy! Sort resources and answer questions about how energy works.

Sort the following natural resources into renewable and non renewable energy resources. Renewable Sources Sun Wood Plants Wind Geothermal Water Cow dung Non Renewable Sources Natural Gas Coal Uranium Petroleum Propane Fossil fuels Oil 1. How is geothermal energy harnessed? Solar panels collect sunlight. Heat from the Earth boils water to create steam We pump it from the Earth and refine it into gasoline. Using wind turbines 2. What is one disadvantage of using hydropower? The power is only used to power large buildings instead of homes. Most of the time there is not enough water to generate electricity. Building dams can damage natural wildlife and their habitats. Hydropower is not an efficient source of energy. 3. Wind mills and Wind turbines work on the same principle. True False 4. Air, water, sun, trees, rocks and minerals, soil, coal and oil are all examples of which type of resource? Renewable resources Nonrenewable resources Natural energy resources Inexhaustible resource 5. In a wind turbine chemical energy is transformed to electrical energy. True False Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today? They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use. They are being formed too far beneath the surface. We are using the fossil fuels much faster than they can form. The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.