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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

What is an example of renewable source

  1. Oxygen

  2. Coal

  3. Oil

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

A renewable resource is one that can be replenished naturally over a short period. Oxygen is continuously replenished through photosynthesis, whereas coal, oil, and natural gas are fossil fuels that take millions of years to form.

Multiple choice

Most sources of energy today are:

  1. Fossil Fuels

  2. Wind powered

  3. Renewable

  4. Nuclear power
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Despite the growth of renewable energy, the vast majority of global energy consumption is still derived from fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.

Multiple choice

Geothermal Power stations use…

  1. Sunlight

  2. Waves moving up and down

  3. Thermal energy stored underground in the Earth’s core.

  4. The tide coming in and going out
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Geothermal energy harnesses the heat generated within the Earth, often from radioactive decay, to produce steam and generate electricity.

Multiple choice

A non-renewable energy resource is …

  1. Energy resource that will run out one day

  2. Energy resource that will never run out.
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Non-renewable resources exist in finite amounts and cannot be replenished on a human timescale, meaning they will eventually run out.

Multiple choice physics sources of energy non-conventional sources of energy electric energy generation and environment renewable and non-renewable energy

The source of energy of the hot water spring is geothermal energy.           

  1. True

  2. False

  3. Ambiguous

  4. Data insufficient
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth. It's clean and sustainable. Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.

Multiple choice physics towards green energy non-conventional sources of energy electric energy generation and environment renewable and non-renewable energy

The non-renewable source of energy amongst the following is :

  1. wind energy

  2. hydel energy

  3. solar energy

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

Answer is D.

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. An example is carbon-based, organically-derived fuel. The original organic material, with the aid of heat and pressure, becomes a fuel such as oil or gas. Earth minerals and metal ores, fossil fuels (such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas), nuclear fuels, and groundwater in certain aquifers are all non-renewable resources.
Natural resources such as coal, petroleum (crude oil) and natural gas take thousands of years to form naturally and cannot be replaced as fast as they are being consumed. Eventually it is considered that fossil-based resources will become too costly to harvest and humanity will need to shift its reliance to other sources of energy. 
Hence, fossil fuels are non-renewable resources.