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04 Natural Resources
Question | Answer |
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natural resources | materials in the environment that are useful to people |
source | the point at which something begins |
renewable resource | resources that nature produces again and again |
nonrenewable resource | resources that nature cannot replace quickly enough to meet people's needs |
inexhaustible resource | Resources that humans can use and never use up such as solar energy and wind |
energy | the ability to do work |
pollution | anything in the environment that can harm living things or damage natural resources |
acid rain | rain that contains unhealthy amounts of acid |
fossil fuels | fuels that formed from decayed remains of ancient plants and animals |