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Grade 4 Renewable or Nonrenewable Science Worksheets

Grade 4 science practice: Renewable or nonrenewable resource?.

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Sample renewable or nonrenewable questions

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  1. Which of these takes millions of years to form and is nonrenewable?

    Coal · Sunlight

  2. Which of these is a nonrenewable resource?

    Coal · Sunlight

  3. Which is a renewable energy source?

    Geothermal heat · Gasoline

  4. Which of these is a renewable resource?

    Natural gas · Tidal energy

Check the sample answers
  1. Coal
    Coal forms very slowly from buried plants, so it is nonrenewable.
  2. Coal
    Coal takes millions of years to form and can run out, so it is nonrenewable.
  3. Geothermal heat
    Heat from inside the Earth keeps being supplied, so it is renewable.
  4. Tidal energy
    Ocean tides rise and fall every day, so tidal energy is renewable.

Practice focus

A renewable resource is replaced by nature in a short time, such as sunlight, wind, flowing water, geothermal heat, and trees. A nonrenewable resource takes an extremely long time to form and can run out, such as coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium. Sorting resources this way helps people plan how to use energy wisely.

Grade placement is a planning guide for choosing practice. The registry records standard-code mappings as unreviewed, so these pages are not a claim of alignment with a national standard.

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A renewable resource is replaced by nature in a short time, such as sunlight, wind, flowing water, geothermal heat, and trees. A nonrenewable resource takes an extremely long time to form and can run out, such as coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium. Sorting resources this way helps people plan how to use energy wisely. Generating the page again keeps the same learning goal while changing the questions, so a learner can revisit the skill without repeating the same items.

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