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True or False
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LEARN | Recommended For Ages 8 - 17 |
Take this Quick True and False Quiz to start learning about clean (and dirty) energy sources. Use what you learn to help think of questions to ask the host/ess of the Clean Energy Site you will visit when completing the "Explore" requirement of the patch.
Keep track of your answers as you finish the quiz and then take a look at the answer key.
1. We need an energy source to make anything work. This means without energy, we would not have lights or machines work. Without energy, we could not make a car, plane, train or anything else move. Without energy, we couldn't keep a building warm. Without energy, we would not be able to make anything.
TRUE or FALSE?
2. The only source of energy humans use to do everything is gasoline.
TRUE or FALSE?
3. Most of the energy we use in our country today comes from burning fossil fuels - ancient remains of sea and plant life buried underground for hundreds of millions of years.
TRUE or FALSE?
4. There's so much oil under the ground, we can keep increasing our use of it for at least the next 100 years.
TRUE or FALSE?
5. Massachusetts has to import all of its fossil fuels used to generate electricity.
TRUE or FALSE?
6. Coal mining is an almost invisible operation since the mining is usually deep underground.
TRUE or FALSE?
7. It is possible for an individual or family to make choices that can prevent tons of carbon dioxide (a major contributor to global warming) from going into the air each year.
TRUE or FALSE?
8. The biggest source of ozone pollution in our country is from the smokestacks of factories.
TRUE or FALSE?
9. Water vapor in the air can trap heat.
TRUE or FALSE?
Finished? Click here for the answer key.
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