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Earth and Environmental Science Quiz on Renewable sources, created by Katerina Andreou on 29/01/2018.

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Renewable sources

Question 1 of 10

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What does "renewable resources" mean?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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.

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Question 2 of 10

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What is renewable energy?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

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Question 3 of 10

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 4 of 10

1

Non renewable energy comes from:

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

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Question 5 of 10

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Renewable energy resources exist:

Select one or more of the following:

  • over wide geographical areas

  • concentrated in a limited number of countries

  • only in othes planets.

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Question 6 of 10

1

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.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 7 of 10

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Renewable energy systems are:

Select one of the following:

  • rapidly becoming more efficient and cheaper.

  • impossible to install.

  • only available in USA.

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Question 8 of 10

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Renewable energy has the ability to:

Select one or more of the following:

  • increase the sea level.

  • lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity.

  • make the poor poorer and the rich richer.

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Question 9 of 10

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Renewable energy

Select one of the following:

  • pollutes the water of countries using it.

  • increases global temperature.

  • reduces environmental pollution such as air pollution.

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Question 10 of 10

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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