Assessment Question Bank
Intermediate
Sources of Energy
Knowledge
Do Americans use more renewable or nonrenewable energy sources?
Photovoltaic (or solar) cells turn the sun’s energy into what?
List the fossil fuels.
Identify the renewable energy sources.
Identify the nonrenewable energy sources.
What energy source is used to make gasoline?
What energy source gives human beings energy?
Define solar.
Define biomass.
Define geothermal.
Define hydropower.
Define geothermal.
Define coal.
Define petroleum.
Define propane.
Define natural gas.
Define uranium.
Which energy source is used to generate electricity the most?
List two things for which we use natural gas.
List two things for which we use petroleum.
List two things for which we use solar energy.
List two things for which we use biomass.
What energy sources do we use in the United States?
Assessment Question Bank
Intermediate
Sources of Energy
Knowledge
What is radiation?
Where in the United States do we find the most evidence of geothermal energy?
What is the major source for biomass energy?
What is the Ring of Fire and where is it located?
What is the proposed method of disposal for nuclear waste?
What are petroleum’s major uses?
What are coal’s major uses?
What are the major uses of natural gas?
What are the major uses of propane?
Where is petroleum found and how do we recover it?
What is refining and what are the major products made when petroleum is refined?
From where does propane come?
What is the molecular structure of hydrogen?
How is hydrogen found on earth?
Name two methods to make hydrogen gas.
What is a fuel cell?
List a product, other than gasoline, made from petroleum.
What is the oldest type of coal with the highest energy content?
Which country is the world leader of known coal reserves?
A photovoltaic cell is made of what element?
What energy source is a result of the uneven heating of the earth’s surface?
Name the renewable energy source that includes garbage and agricultural waste.
Assessment Question Bank
Intermediate
Sources of Energy
Knowledge
Which source of energy is a result of the radioactive decay of elements inside the earth’s core?
Which fossil fuel is the largest supplier of U.S. energy?
Which is the cleanest burning fossil fuel?
Which fossil fuel is used to generate about half of the nation’s electricity?
Which energy source provides the U.S. with its second largest amount of electricity?
Name the biological process that can convert agricultural products and waste into alcohol and
carbon dioxide.
Name one method of utilizing the energy stored in biomass.
What percent of the nation’s energy is supplied by renewable sources of energy?
Name one use of solar energy in the home.
What two elements are the major components of fossil fuels?
What is the major air pollutant found in coal?
How much of the petroleum we use in the U.S. is imported?
Ninety percent of raw natural gas is composed of what gas?
Which fossil fuel is most abundant in the U.S.?
Which country is the world leader of known petroleum reserves?
What is an isotope?
What isotope of uranium splits when hit by a neutron?
Which of the four sectors of the economy—industry, home, transportation, or business—is the
major user of natural gas?
Which of the following is not a fossil fuel?
uranium
petroleum
natural gas
coal
In the U.S., we rely mainly on which source of energy for electricity?
Assessment Question Bank
Intermediate
Sources of Energy
Knowledge
Renewable energy sources provide what percentage of total U.S. energy consumption?
Which energy source is produced by uneven heating of the earth’s surface?
Which energy source provides most of our transportation needs?