1. What Does It Mean When an Energy Resource Is Renewable ? (Your Words)

Energy Resources Name______

1. What does it mean when an energy resource is “renewable”? (Your words) ______2. What does it mean when an energy resource is “nonrenewable”? ______

3. Give examples of renewable energy resources.  ______ ______ ______ ______ ______4. Give examples of non-renewable energy resources.  ______ ______ ______ ______5. What are “fossil fuels”? ______

6. Which of the non-renewable energy resources are “fossil fuels”? ______

7. What are the MAIN disadvantages of fossil fuels?  ______ ______

8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of COAL? ______

9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of PETEROLEUM? ______10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of NATURAL GAS? ______

11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of NUCLEAR POWER? ______

12. According to the chart above, what percentage of US energy is produced by all of the nonrenewable sources, combined? Show your calculations and label data.

____ + ____ + ____ + ____ = _____

13. What is the energy resource most commonly used to make electricity? ______14. Is this energy resource renewable or non-renewable?______15. If people used less electricity, then power plants would generate less electricity, and less air pollution would be created as a result of burning fossil fuels to make electricity. Give one specific example of what you can do to reduce the amount of electricity you use. ______16. What are the advantages and disadvantages of WIND energy? ______17. What are the advantages and disadvantages of SOLAR energy? ______

18. What are the advantages and disadvantages of GEOTHERMAL energy? ______

19. Power plants can reduce air pollution by scrubbing or trapping pollutants from the burning of fossil fuels, before they are emitted into the air. It is also possible to gasify coal, turning it into a form of energy that pollutes less. An alternative to cleaning up fossil fuel emissions is to use a ‘clean’ form of energy, instead. In the U.S., the most common of these ‘clean’ technologies is water power (also called hydropower). You can probably already think of at least two good things about hydropower (hints: related to air quality and to whether it is renewable). List those advantages below and think of at least one more. What are three benefits or advantages of hydropower?  ______ ______ ______

What are two limitations or disadvantages of hydropower?  ______ ______

20. Label the diagram of a hydroelectric dam and powerhouse below with the following: generator power lines penstock reservoir transformer intake turbine dam powerhouse control gate outflow