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resource
Term | Definition |
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Natural resource | parts of earth's environment that supply materials useful or necessary for the survival of lining organisms. |
Renewable resource | natural resources such as water, sunlight, and crops, that are constantly being recycled or replaced by nature. |
Nonrenewable resource | natural resources, such as petroleum, minerals, and metals,that are use more quickly than they can be replaced by nature |
Petroleum | nonrenewable resource formed over hundreds of millions of years mostly from the remains of microscopic in marine |
Fossil fuel | nonrenewable energy resources-coal, oil, and natural gas-that formed in earth's crust over hundreds off millions of years |
Hydroelectric power | electricity produced when the energy of falling water turns the blades of a generator turbine |
Nuclear energy | energy produced from the splitting apart of billions of uranium nucle |
Geothermal energy | heat energy within earth's crust available only where natural geysers or volcanoes are located |