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Energy Resources and Storage

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Energy Resources questions explore conventional and renewable energy sources, including wind, hydropower, and biomass technologies. These concepts are crucial for SSC, UPSC, and state competitive exams. Practice these questions to understand energy generation and storage technologies better.

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Energy Resources and Storage Questions

Multiple choice physics pressure in liquids and gases pressure dependence on force and area concept of pressure pressure on surface

In a hydel station, the motion produced in turbines is due to the

  1. burning of coal

  2. burning of diesel

  3. flow of water

  4. production of steam
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Water flowing in the river is comprised of kinetic energy and potential energy. In hydroelectric power plants the potential energy of water is utilized to produce electricity.

The dam is the most important component of hydroelectric power plant. The dam is built on a large river that has abundant quantity of water throughout the year. It should be built at a location where the height of the river is sufficient to get the maximum possible potential energy from water.


Multiple choice evs solar energy water cycle earth's energy budget solar energy and its applications

The main source of all types of energy on the Earth is :

  1. coal

  2. moon

  3. petrolium

  4. sun
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Sun is the primary source of all types of energy on Earth. This is a duplicate of question 436962 with the same correct answer. The sun's energy powers weather, grows plants (becoming fossil fuels), and directly provides light and heat.

Multiple choice evs solar energy water cycle earth's energy budget solar energy and its applications


Most of the sources of energy we use represent stored solar energy. Which of the following is not ultimately derived from the Sun's energy?

  1. Geothermal energy

  2. Wind Energy

  3. Nuclear energy

  4. BioMass
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Nuclear energy is not ultimately derived from the Sun's energy as uses radioactive substances to produce energy.

Multiple choice evs solar energy fuels and fossil fuels solar energy and its applications electric energy generation and environment

The energy possessed by coal, petroleum and natural gas is called

  1. kinetic energy

  2. potential energy

  3. chemical energy

  4. hydro energy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The energy possessed by fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas is called the chemical energy or fuel energy. These fuels contain chemical energy stored in them.

Multiple choice evs solar energy fuels and fossil fuels solar energy and its applications electric energy generation and environment

Which of the following is a non-renewable source of energy?

  1. Wood

  2. Sun

  3. Fossil fuels

  4. Wind
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A non-renewable resource (also called a finite resource) is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time-frames.
Fossil fuels are non renewable resource.
Wind and wood are renewable  as their localized replenishment can occur within time frames meaningful to humans.

Multiple choice evs solar energy fuels and fossil fuels solar energy and its applications electric energy generation and environment

From below conventional sources of energy which is NOT a non renewable source of energy?

  1. Wind

  2. Coal

  3. Petroleum

  4. Natural gas
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Some examples of conventional sources of energy are wood, coal, fossil fuels, petroleum and natural gas.

Some examples of non-conventional sources of energy are wind, hydel, solar, tidal.

Multiple choice evs solar energy fuels and fossil fuels solar energy and its applications electric energy generation and environment

Which of the following energy source is most costly?

  1. Thermal Energy

  2. Hydel Energy

  3. Solar Energy

  4. Fossil Energy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Harnessing hydel power / energy is very costly procedure due to construction of large dams across the streams, clearance of vegetation for the development of the project, rehabilitation of the people living nearby the water bodies.

Multiple choice geography environmental risks of economic development tundra climatic region effects and successes of environment conservation environment and its components

Which of the following two statements are true

A. For conservation of natural resources like natural gas, one can get tank less water heater as it reduces the usage of natural gas.

B. To save natural gas, the use of another energy source like hydro, solar or wind power are all healthy alternative resources

  1. Only A

  2. Only B

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Conservation of resources is nothing but making use of resources such that they are not depleted and are left behind for replenishing in future. This can be achieved in many ways, for example for conservation of natural resources like natural gas, one can get tank less water heater as it reduces the usage of natural gas and the other example is to save natural gas, the use of another energy source like hydro, solar or wind power can be followed.