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Junior Cycle Science: Energy sources & sustainability
How often Energy sources & sustainability comes up on the Science papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 3 of the last 6 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Energy sources & sustainability, Common Level(8 marks)
Quick ones on Energy sources & sustainability.
(a)Which of these is a renewable energy source?
- Coal
- Wind
- Natural gas
(b)Why are fossil fuels called non-renewable?
- They are only found under the sea
- They cannot be burned for power
- They take millions of years to form
(c)Which is an advantage of generating electricity from nuclear power?
- No CO2 released while running
- Its fuel is renewable
- It makes no dangerous waste
Show the answers
(a) Wind
(b) They take millions of years to form
(c) No CO2 released while running
Common Level
Asked on 3 of the last 6 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Not asked |
| 2024 | Q2 |
| 2023 | Q10 |
| 2022 | Not asked |
| 2019 | Q13 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Science topics
- Analysing data & graphs
- Earth-Sun-Moon system
- States of matter & changes
- The universe & solar system
- Acids & bases
- Atoms & the Periodic Table
- Cells & microscopes
- Ecology & habitats
- Electricity & circuits
- Energy conversions & efficiency
- Exothermic & endothermic
- Forces & Hooke's law
- Human body systems
- Measurement & density
- Properties of materials
- Scientific investigations
- Speed & acceleration
- Climate change
- Genetics & evolution
- Human health & micro-organisms
- Human reproduction
- Rates of reaction & gases
- Science in society
- Space exploration
- Water & carbon cycles
- Biodiversity & conservation
- Mixtures & separation
- Photosynthesis & respiration
- Materials & recycling