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Natural Resource
Term | Definition |
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Natural Resource | part of the Earth's environment that supplies materials useful or necessary for the survival of a living organism |
Renewable Resource | natural resources, such as water, sunlight, and crops, that are constantly being recycled by nature |
Nonrenewable Resource | natural resources, such as petroleum, minerals, and metals, that are used more quickly than it can be replaced by natural processes |
Petroleum | nonrenewable resource formed over hundreds of millions of years mostly from the remains of microscopic marine organisms buried in Earth's crust |
Fossil Fuel | nonrenewable energy sources- coal, oil, and natural gas-that formed in Earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years |
Hydroelectric Power | electricity produced when the energy of falling water turns the blades of a generator turbine |
Nuclear Energy | energy produced from the splitting apart of billions of uranium nuclei by nuclear fission reaction |
Geothermal Energy | heat energy within Earth's crust, available only where natural geysers or volcanos are located |