E.S. Ch. 8+9 vocab. Word Scramble
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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 |
Industrial Revolution | a period of history during which machinery replaced human labor |
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 |
active solar system | a system that traps sunlight energy as heat energy and uses mechanical means to move it to another location |
biomass | any accumulation of organic material produced by living things |
black lung disease | a respiatory condition resulting from the accumulation of large amounts of fine coal dust particles in miner's lungs |
geothermal energy | the heats energy from the molten core |
liquefied natural gas | natural gas that has beenconverted to a liquid by cooling to -162-C |
nonrenewable energy sources | those energy sources that are not replaced by natural process within a reasonable lenght of time |
overburden | the layer of soil and rock that covers deposits of desirable minerals |
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 |
photovoltaic cell | a means of directly converting light energy into electricity |
renewable energy sources | those enrgy sources that can be regenerated by natural processes |
reserves | the known deposits from which materials can be extracted profitably with existing technology under present economic conditions |
resources | naturally occuring substances that can be utilized by people but may not be economic |
secondary recovery | techniques used to obtain the maximum amount of oil or natural gas from a well |
surface mining | a type of minning in which the overburden is removed to produce the underlying deposit |
underground mining | a type of mining in which the deposited material is removed without disturbing the overburden |
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