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Mr. DeLaTorre Chap 5

Mr. DeLaTorre Earth Science Chap 5 Vocabulary

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natural resource Any natural substance, organism, or energy form that living things use.
Renewable resource a natural resource that can be used and replaced over a relatively short time.
Nonrenewable resource a natural resource that cannot be replaced.
Recycling the use of used or discarded materials that have been reprocessed into new products.
Energy resource a natural resource that can be converted by humans into other forms of energy in order to do useful work.
Fossil fuel a nonrenewable energy resource that forms in the Earths crust over millions of years.
Petroleum an oily mixture of flammable organic compounds in a liquid form.
Natural gas a gaseous fossil fuel.
Coal a solid fossil fuel formed underground from buried decomposed plant material.
Strip mining a process in which rock and soil are stripped from the Earths surface to expose the materials to be mined.
Acid precipitation precipitation that contains acids due to air pollution.
Smog a photochemical fog produced by the action of sunlight on air pollutants.
Nuclear energy the form of energy associated with changes in the nucleus of an atom.
Solar energy energy from the sun
Wind energy energy in wind.
Hydroelectric energy electricity produced by falling water.
Biomass organic matter such as plants, wood, and waste that contains stored energy.
Gasohol a mixture of gasoline and alcohol that is burned as fuel.
Geothermal energy energy resulting from the heating of the Earths crust.
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