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Question 1

Natural Resource

Answer 1

Natural resources are resources that exist without any actions of humankind.

Question 2

Renewable Resource

Answer 2

Renewable resources include biomass energy (such as ethanol), hydro power, geothermal power, wind energy, and solar energy.

Question 3

Nonrenewable Resource

Answer 3

There are four major types of nonrenewable resources: oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy.

Question 4

Recycling

Answer 4

the action or process of converting waste into reusable material.

Question 5

Fossil Fuel

Answer 5

a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.

Question 6

Petroleum

Answer 6

Petroleum is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons that occur on Earth in liquid, gaseous, or solid form.

Question 7

Natural Gas

Answer 7

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting of methane and commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

Question 8

Coal

Answer 8

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

Question 9

Acid Precipitation

Answer 9

Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation with acidic components

Question 10

Smog

Answer 10

Smog is a kind of air pollution, originally named for the mixture of smoke and fog in the air. Classic smog results from large amounts of coal burning in an area and is caused by a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide.

Question 11

Nuclear Energy

Answer 11

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.

Question 12

Chemical Energy

Answer 12

Chemical energy is the energy of chemical substances that is released when they undergo a chemical reaction and transform into other substances.

Question 13

Solar Energy

Answer 13

Solar power is energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy.

Question 14

Wind Power

Answer 14

power obtained by harnessing the energy of the wind.

Question 15

Hydroelectric Energy

Answer 15

Hydroelectric energy, also called hydroelectric power or hydroelectricity, is a form of energy that harnesses the power of water in motion

Question 16

Biomass

Answer 16

the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume.

Question 17

Gasohol

Answer 17

a mixture of gasoline and ethyl alcohol used as fuel in internal combustion engines.

Question 18

Geothermal Energy

Answer 18

Geothermal energy is the thermal energy in the Earth’s crust which originates from the formation of the planet and from radioactive decay of materials in currently uncertain but possibly roughly equal proportions.