natural resources

Question 1

any natural material that is used by humans such as water petroleum minerals forests and animals

Answer 1

natural resource

Question 2

a natural resource that can be placed at the same rate at which the resource is consumed

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Renewable Resource

Question 3

a resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which its consumed

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Nonrenewable Resource

Question 4

the process of recovering valuable or useful materials from waste or scap the process of reusing some items

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Recycling

Question 5

a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago.

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Fossil Fuel

Question 6

a liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that is present in certain rock strata and can be extracted and refined to produce fuels including gasoline, kerosene, and diesel oil; oil.

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Petroleum

Question 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.

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Natural Gas

Question 8

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. … Some iron and steel making and other industrial processes burn coal.

Answer 8

Coal

Question 9

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. This can include rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust that is acidic.

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Acid Precipitation

Question 10

fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants.

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smog

Question 11

the energy released during nuclear fission or fusion, especially when used to generate electricity.

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Nuclear Energy

Question 12

Chemical energy is the energy of chemical substances that is released when they undergo a chemical reaction and transform into other substances. Some examples of storage media of chemical energy include batteries, food, gasoline, and oxygen gas.

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Chemical Energy

Question 13

radiant energy emitted by the sun.

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Solar Energy

Question 14

power obtained by harnessing the energy of the wind.

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Wind Power

Question 15

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity produced from hydro-power. In 2015, hydro-power generated 16.6% of the world’s total electricity and 70% of all renewable electricity, and was expected to increase by about 3.1% each year for the next 25 years.

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Hydroelectric Energy

Question 16

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

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Biomass

Question 17

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

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Gasohol

Question 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.

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Geothermal Energy