Question

Answer the following briefly,
(a) Name two traditional sources of
energy
(b) Why are minerals considered to be a non-renewable source of energy?
(c) What are fossil fuels?
(d) What are conventional resources? Why are they being exhausted?
(e) Why are fossil fuels called non-renewable resources?
(f) How are fossil fuels formed?
(g) Why is coal known as Buried Sunshine?
(h) What is crude oil? How is it extracted?
(i) What is wind energy?
(j) Why is solar energy considered to be an environment-friendly energy?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)coal burning and wood burning , petroleum

b) mineral are considered as non renewable because these can used once ,not recyclable

c) fuel that extracted from the fossils of buried organic matter below the earth surface.

d) traditional resources are called conventional resources that are being used for from a long period these are limited and non renewable so exhausting

e)fossil fuels are made during a lot of heating of fossils in absence of air along long time period .the rate of consumption is more than rate of forming fossil fuels

f) Fossil fuels are formed by heating of fossils at high temperature in absence of air along a long period of time

h) crude oil is fossil oil that is mixture of all petroleum products

I) energy which obtained from wind or conversation of energy from wind energy to mechnical to electrical energy

j) solar energy is considered as environment friendly because of production of energy at very low residues

but not purely eco friendly

g) coal is called buried sunshine because of its importance as necessary energy source like as sun and found buried under the layer of earth surface