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Mo8-L4b: What are Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

What are Renewable and
Mo8-L4b
Nonrenewable Energy Resources?
KEY CONCEPTS:
1. What are renewable and nonrenewable energy
resources?

Vocabulary A-Z

Let us learn some vocabulary

Renewable Energy Resource
a resource that can be replenished by natural
processes at least as quickly as it is used.

Wind moves the blades of a wind turbine to generate
electric energy.

Non-Renewable Energy Resource
resource that is used faster that it can be replaced by
natural processes.
In hydroelectric plants, falling water is channeled
through a turbine which transforms mechanical
energy into electric energy.

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Energy Transformations and Electric Energy

A renewable energy resource is an energy resource
that is replaced as fast as, or faster than, it is used.
Solar energy from the Sun is one type of renewable
energy resource that can be converted into electric
energy.
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