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recourses
Term | Definition |
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natural resourses | parts of earths environment that supply materials useful or necessary for the survival of living organisms |
renewable resourse | natural resources such as water,sunlight, and crops that are used more constantly being recycled or replaced by nature |
nonrenewable resourses | natural resources,such as petroleum,minerals,and metals,that are used more quickly than they can be replaced by natural possess |
petroleum | nonrenewable resource form over hundreds of millions of years mostly from the remains of microscopic marine organisms |
fossil fuel | nonrenewable energy resource-coal,oil,and natural gas-that formed in earth crust over hundreds of millions of years |
hydroelectric power | electricity produced when the energy of falling water turns the blades of a generator |
nuclear energy | energy produced from the splitting apart of billions of uranium nuclei by a nuclear fusion reaction |
geothermal energy | heat energy within earths crust,available only where natural geysers or of volcanoes are located |