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Natural Resources 5.11C Earth Picture Vocabulary
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Page 1: Natural Resources 5.11C Earth Picture Vocabulary.

Natural Resources

5.11C Earth Picture Vocabulary

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Natural Resources

Earth materials that are useful and important to humans

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Renewable Resource

Resources that nature can provide again and again in a relatively short

period of time

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Nonrenewable Resource

Resources that nature cannot replace quick enough to meet people’s needs

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Inexhaustible Resource

Resources that are never used up as they are being used

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Fossil Fuels

Fuels formed millions of years ago from the remains of dead plants and animals,

including coal, oil, and natural gas

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Hydropower

The capture of energy from moving water for a useful purpose;

an alternative energy source

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Solar Energy

The process of obtaining useful energy from the sun via solar panels

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Windmill

An engine powered by the wind designed to produce energy from

an inexhaustible source