| Term | Definition |
|---|
| natural resources | Resources that are found in nature (lumber,gas) |
| renewable resources | Something that can be replaced or replenished by nature in a short time (plants, animals, water) |
| nonrenewable resources | A natural resource that can only be replaced over millions of years! (oil, coal, natural gas) |
| fossil fuels | fuels created from remains of dead organisms |
| geothermal energy | heat energy from within the Earth |
| recycling | to reuse natural resources when making new products |
| nuclear energy | an alternative source of energy that comes from the nuclei of atoms (fission, fusion) |
| solar energy | energy from the sun |
| wind energy | Using wind to generate electricity |
| hydroelectric energy | electricity produced by falling water |
| biomass | organic matter that contins stored energy (wood, plants, dung burned for energy) |
| Coal | a solid fossil fuel formed from buried decomposed plant material. |
| Strip mining | a process in which rock and soil are stripped from the surface to expose underlying materials to be mined |
| Acid Precipitation | rain or snow that has a high acid content due to pollution |
| petrolueum | crude oil that is an oil mixture of flammable organic matter from which liquid fossil fuels and other products come from |
| Natural Gas | Ordorless, colorless, tasteless, clean-burning fossil fuel (collected by drilling wells into Earth) |
| Refining | A process that seperates petroleum into fuels and gasoline or oil. |
| energy resources | natural resources that provide people with energy |
| Plastic | Nonrenewable |
| Minerals (3000 different kinds) | Nonrenewable because they take millions of years to form |
| Plants | Renewable |
| Animals | Renewable |
| gasohol | a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn |
| Smog | air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog |
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