Renewable sources

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Earth and Environmental Science Quiz on Renewable sources, created by Katerina Andreou on 29/01/2018.
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Quiz by Katerina Andreou, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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What does "renewable resources" mean?
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  • Resources of any kind, materials, energy, services, staff, knowledge, or other assets that are transformed to produce benefit
  • Natural resource which replenishes to overcome resource depletion caused by usage and consumption
  • Sources or supply from which benefit is produced.

Question 2

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What is renewable energy?
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  • Renewable energy is energy that is collected from new sources.
  • Renewable energy is energy that does not renew itself .
  • Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources.

Question 3

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Renewable energies are sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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Non renewable energy comes from:
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  • sources that are better for the planet's ecological balance but will soon run out.
  • sources that will run out or will not be replenished for thousands or even millions of years.
  • natural sources as tides and waves that will never run out.

Question 5

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Renewable energy resources exist:
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  • over wide geographical areas
  • concentrated in a limited number of countries
  • only in othes planets.

Question 6

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There are a few countries like Denmark , where the government decided to switch the total energy supply (electricity, mobility and heating/cooling) to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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Renewable energy systems are:
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  • rapidly becoming more efficient and cheaper.
  • impossible to install.
  • only available in USA.

Question 8

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Renewable energy has the ability to:
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  • increase the sea level.
  • lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity.
  • make the poor poorer and the rich richer.

Question 9

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Renewable energy
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  • pollutes the water of countries using it.
  • increases global temperature.
  • reduces environmental pollution such as air pollution.

Question 10

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Solar power generators can produce most of the world's electricity within 50 years.
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  • True
  • False
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