Natural Resources Flashcards
Natural Resource
Natural resources are resources that exist without any actions of humankind.
Renewable Resource
Renewable resources include biomass energy (such as ethanol), hydropower, geothermal power, wind energy, and solar energy.
Nonrenewable Resource
There are four major types of nonrenewable resources: oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy.
Recycling
the action or process of converting waste into reusable material.
Fossil Fuel
a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
Petroleum
Petroleum is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons that occur on Earth in liquid, gaseous, or solid form.
Natural Gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting of methane and commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes.
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
Acid Precipitation
Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation with acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid that fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms.
Smog
Smog is a kind of air pollution, originally named for the mixture of smoke and fog in the air.
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.
Chemical Energy
Chemical energy is the energy of chemical substances that is released when they undergo a chemical reaction and transform into other substances.
Solar Energy
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar power to generate electricity, solar thermal energy including solar water heating, and solar architecture.
Wind Power
power obtained by harnessing the energy of the wind.
Hydroelectric Energy
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity produced from hydropower.
