Natural resources

Question 1

Natural resource

Answer 1

Any natural material that is used by humans

Question 2

Renewable resource

Answer 2

A natural resource that can be replaced as fast as it is consumed

Question 3

Nonrenewable resource

Answer 3

A natural resource that cannot be replaced as it is consumed

Question 4

Recycling

Answer 4

The process of recovering valuable or useful material from scraps

Question 5

Fossil fuel

Answer 5

A nonrenewable energy source formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago

Question 6

Acid rain

Answer 6

Rain that has been through lots of pollution to the point that acid builds up in the rain

Question 7

Smog

Answer 7

fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants.

Question 8

Petroleum

Answer 8

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth’s surface. It is commonly refined into various types of fuels

Question 9

Natural Gas

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Coal

Answer 10

flammable black hard rock used as a solid fossil fuel

Question 11

Nuclear energy

Answer 11

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant. The term includes nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion.

Question 12

Chemical energy

Answer 12

Chemical energy, Energy stored in the bonds of chemical compounds. Chemical energy may be released during a chemical reaction, often in the form of heat; such reactions are called exothermic.

Question 13

Solar energy

Answer 13

Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.

Question 14

Wind power

Answer 14

Power harnessed by wind using wind mills and

Question 15

Hydroelectricity

Answer 15

Electricity made by harnessing moving water

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 heat from the Earth. It’s clean and sustainable. Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth’s surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.