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Natural Resources
Natural Resources Unit Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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natural resource | something found in nature that is used by people |
fossil fuels | substances that formed when plants and animals living millions of years ago decayed |
mineral | a solid found in nature that has a definite chemical makeup |
renewable resource | can be replaced within a person's lifetime |
nonrenewable resource | cannot be replaced within a person's lifetime |
inexhaustible resource | does not decrease or become used up as people us it |