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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 geography irrigation and power generation of electricity exploration and conservation of minerals secondary sector : industry

Which power is generated by using coal, petroleum and natural gas?

  1. Nuclear power

  2. Thermal power

  3. Solar power

  4. Bio gas
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Thermal electricity is generated by using coal, petroleum and natural gas. The thermal power stations use non-renewable fossil fuels for generating electricity. There are over 310 thermal power plants in India.

Multiple choice geography irrigation and power generation of electricity exploration and conservation of minerals secondary sector : industry

Electricity generated from tides in the ocean is called _____________.

  1. thermal power

  2. geothermal power

  3. tidal power

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

Oceanic tides can be used to generate electricity. Floodgate dams are built across inlets. During high tide water flows into the inlet and gets trapped when the gate is closed. After the tide falls outside the flood gate, the water retained by the floodgate flows back to the sea via a pipe that carries it through a power-generating turbine. 

Multiple choice geography irrigation and power generation of electricity exploration and conservation of minerals secondary sector : industry

Hydroelectricity is known as ________.

  1. Black Coal

  2. Blue Coal

  3. Green Coal

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

Hydroelectricity is often referred to as white coal because it is a renewable and clean source of energy that can be used to generate power, similar to how coal is used, but without the carbon emissions.

Multiple choice commercial studies striving for a better environment unequal distribution of resources protecting our environment rules are for everyone

From the list given below pick the item that is not a natural resource.

  1. Soil

  2. Water

  3. Electricity

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

A natural resource is anything that people can use which comes from nature. People do not make natural resources, but gather them from the Earth. Examples of natural resources are air, water, wood, oil, wind energy, iron and coal. Refined oil and hydro-electric energy are not natural resources because people make them.

Multiple choice commercial studies striving for a better environment unequal distribution of resources protecting our environment rules are for everyone

Most important natural source of energy currently being used is

  1. Sunlight

  2. Fossil fuel

  3. Biogas

  4. Atomic energy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The resources which are naturally produced in nature are known as natural resources. The important resource which is used currently is the sunlight. The solar energy can be harnessed for the generation of electricity. The solar panels which help in capturing the energy and conversion to electrical energy.

Thus, the correct answer is option A. 

Multiple choice commercial studies striving for a better environment unequal distribution of resources protecting our environment rules are for everyone

Pick the right combination of terms which has no fossil fuel.

  1. Wind, ocean and coal

  2. Kerosene, wind and tide

  3. Wind and sun

  4. Petroleum, wood and sun
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • Fossil fuel is the fuel derived from dead remains of plants and animals. For example- coal is obtained from dead remains of plants while crude petroleum is obtained from dead remains of animals. 
  • Some other sources of energy which are not derived from dead remains of plants and animals (and are hence, not fossil fuels) are wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, etc. 
  • Wood from trees is also a source of energy. It is a renewable source of energy. Wind and sun are inexhaustible sources of energy. Unlike fossil fuels, whose supply is andlimited are hence exhaustible sources of energy.
Multiple choice chemistry rocks and minerals coal petroleum non-renewable sources of energy

Petroleum is:

  1. a renewable resource

  2. a non renewable resource

  3. synthetic and biodegradable

  4. infinite and unconventional
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Petroleum resource is a non renewable resource.
The limited quantity of petroleum is present in the earth which when exhausted cannot be obtained again.

Multiple choice chemistry rocks and minerals coal petroleum non-renewable sources of energy

Petroleum is a renewable fossil fuel

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Petroleum is a fossil fuel which is formed deep under the earth's crust in thousands of years which is a non renewable resource which once depleted cannot be replenished back.It cannot be made artificially in the laboratories.

Multiple choice chemistry nuclear physics nuclear reactor the nuclear power station isotopes and nuclear chemistry

Physics contributed most to the development of alternative energy resources with discovery of:

  1. Controlled nuclear fission

  2. Photoelectric effect

  3. Motion of charged particles in electromagnetic

  4. Faradays laws of electromagnetic induction
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Controlled fission reaction is carried out in reactor to produce electricity.

In fission due to mass defect huge energy is produced. Mainly uranium 235 is used as a fuel in the reactors.