Natural Resources Vocabulary

Question 1

Natural Resource

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Renewable Resource

Answer 2

A renewable resource, also known as a flow resource, is a natural resource which will replenish to replace the portion depleted by usage and consumption, either through natural reproduction or other recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale.

Question 3

Nonrenewable Resource

Answer 3

A non-renewable resource is a natural resource that cannot be readily replaced by natural means at a pace quick enough to keep up with consumption. An example is carbon-based fossil fuels.

Question 4

Recycling

Answer 4

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

Question 5

Fossil Fuel

Answer 5

A fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon-containing material formed underground from the remains of dead plants and animals that humans extract and burn to release energy for use.

Question 6

Petroleum

Answer 6

Petroleum, also known as crude oil and oil, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth’s surface. It is commonly refined into various types of fuels.

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 is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions.

Question 10

Smog

Answer 10

Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution.

Question 11

Nuclear Energy

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Chemical Energy

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Solar Energy

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

Wind Power

Answer 14

Wind power generation means getting the electrical energy by converting wind energy into rotating energy of the blades and converting that rotating energy into electrical energy by the generator.

Question 15

Hydroelectric Energy

Answer 15

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity produced from hydropower.

Question 16

Biomass

Answer 16

Biomass is plant or animal material used as fuel to produce electricity or heat.

Question 17

Gasohol

Answer 17

Several common ethanol fuel mixtures are in use around the world.

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.