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Resources
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |