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Geo 101 final review
Human Impact
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exists at the thin interface between the climate, plate tectonics, and geodynamic systems | Civilization |
| The entire amount of a material that may be available for use sometime in the future | Resources |
| Known resources that can be recovered economically and legally today | Reserves |
| Resources that are created by processes that take long spans of time to form (millions of years) | Non-renewable resources |
| Resources that can be replenished over short time spans (months, years, decades) | Renewable resources |
| Those energy resources that have formed as the result of the burial and subsequent transformation of organic material | Fossil fuels |
| Minerals deposited from hot waters, usually associated with igneous intrusions | Hydrothermal deposits |