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Vocabulary 2
Question | Answer |
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Natural resource | Parts of Earths environment that supply materials useful or necessary for the survival of an organism. |
Renewable resource | Natural resources such as water, sunlight, and crops that are constantly being replaced by nature. |
Nonrenewable resource | Natural resource, such as petroleum, minerals, metal that are used more quickly than they can be replaced by natural process. |
Petroleum | Nonrenewable resource formed over hundreds of of millions of years mostly from remains of microscopic marine organisms buried in the Earth's crust. |
Fossil fuels | nonrenewable resource -coal, oil ,and natural gas-that formed into Earth's over millions of yrs. |
Hydroelectric power | Electricity produced when the energy of falling water turns the blades of a generator turbine. |
Nuclear power | energy produced from the splitting of billions of uranium nuclei by a nuclear fission reaction. |
Geothermal energy | Heat energy within Earth's crust, available only where natural geysers or volcanoes are located. |