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Resources
Term | Definition |
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Natural resource | part of earths earths evio. that supply materials useful or necessary for the survival of livin organisms |
Renewable resource | natural resources such as water,sunlight,and crops,that are constantly being recycled by nature |
Non-renewable resource ` | natural resource such as petroleum minerals and metals that are used more quickly than they can be replaced by natural proccess |
Petroleum | nonrenewable energy resource formed over hundreds of millions of years is mostly from the remains of microscopic marine organisms buried in earths crust |
Fossil fuel | nonrenewable energy resource,coal,oil,and natural gas-that formed in in earths 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 a nuclear process |
Geothermal energy | heat energy within earths crust available only when geysers or volcanoes are located |