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Resources
Term | Definition |
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Natural Resource | Part of Earth's environment that supplies materials or necessary for survival. |
Renewable Resource | Natural resource such as water, sunlight, and crops. |
Nonrenewable Resource | Natural Resource such as petroleum, minerals, and metals. |
Petroleum | Nonrenewable resource formed over hundreds of millions of years. |
Fossil Feul | Nonrenewable resource such as coal, oil, and natural gases. |
Hydroelectric power | Electricity produced when energy of falling water turns blades of a turbine. |
Nuclear Energy | Energy produced from the sunlight apart from billions of uranium nuclei by a nuclear fission reactor. |
Geothermal Energy | Heat energy within Earth's crust, available only where natural geysers or volcanoes. |