Chapter 8+9 vocabulary practice terms
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| fossil fuels | the organic remains of plants, animals, and microorganisms that lived millions of years ago that are preserved as natural gas, oil, and coal
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| Industrial Revolution | a period of history during which machinery replaced human labor
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| acid mine drainage | a kind of pollution, associated with coal mines, in which bacteria convert the sulfur in coal into compounds that form sulfurie acid
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| active solar system | a system that traps sunlight energy as heat energy and uses mechanical means to move it to another location
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| biomass | any accumulation of organic material produced by living things
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| black lung disease | a respiatory condition resulting from the accumulation of large amounts of fine coal dust particles in miner's lungs
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| geothermal energy | the heats energy from the molten core
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| liquefied natural gas | natural gas that has beenconverted to a liquid by cooling to -162-C
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| nonrenewable energy sources | those energy sources that are not replaced by natural process within a reasonable lenght of time
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| overburden | the layer of soil and rock that covers deposits of desirable minerals
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| passive solar system | a desibg that allows for the entrapment and transfer of heat from the sun to a building without the use of moving parts or machinery
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| photovoltaic cell | a means of directly converting light energy into electricity
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| renewable energy sources | those enrgy sources that can be regenerated by natural processes
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| reserves | the known deposits from which materials can be extracted profitably with existing technology under present economic conditions
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| resources | naturally occuring substances that can be utilized by people but may not be economic
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| secondary recovery | techniques used to obtain the maximum amount of oil or natural gas from a well
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| surface mining | a type of minning in which the overburden is removed to produce the underlying deposit
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| underground mining | a type of mining in which the deposited material is removed without disturbing the overburden
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