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resource
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Natural resource | parts of earth's environment that supply materials useful or necessary for the survival of lining organisms. |
| Renewable resource | natural resources such as water, sunlight, and crops, that are constantly being recycled or replaced by nature. |
| Nonrenewable resource | natural resources, such as petroleum, minerals, and metals,that are use more quickly than they can be replaced by nature |
| Petroleum | nonrenewable resource formed over hundreds of millions of years mostly from the remains of microscopic in marine |
| Fossil fuel | nonrenewable energy resources-coal, oil, and natural gas-that formed in earth's crust over hundreds off 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 nucle |
| Geothermal energy | heat energy within earth's crust available only where natural geysers or volcanoes are located |