VOCABULARY
This natural resource is a result of plant and animal remains being buried quickly.
What are fossil fuels?
This renewable energy source uses heat from within the earth to generate power.
What is geothermal energy?
This nonrenewable energy can be dangerous if not highly regulated due to the radioactive material, uranium, being used to create the power.
All of the water on the earth is referred to as this.
What is the hydrosphere?
What is smelting?
This mineral is used to create nuclear energy.
What is uranium?
The negative sides of this production is that it takes up space, is noisy, and not visually appealing, to many.
What Is wind energy?
What is burning?
These plantlike creatures filter more than 50% of the earth's CO2 to Oxygen.
What is phytoplankton?
Scientists discovered these fields have greater erosion during wind storms.
What are barren fields?
This is a type of factory that separates crude oil into different products.
What is a refinery?
This renewable energy source uses the movement of water to spin a turbine to create energy.
What is hydroelectric power?
This fossil fuel's name means liquid rock.
What is the ocean?
This process is utilized to keep water from washing away soil.
What is contour plowing?
This is a layer of sand, gravel, and/or bedrock that holds and moves ground water.
What is an aquifer?
This energy production has no pollutants, but has the downfall of expense and storage.
What is solar energy?
This nonrenewable resource is found in several different grades.
What is coal?
Water returns to the sky through ____ and evaporation.
What is transpiration?
This technique protects soil from being eroded by wind and rain by planting specific crops.
What is ground cover?
This is a concentrated area of a specific mineral.
What is a vein?
holding areas created by dams are referred to as this.
What are reservoirs?
Chemicals produced from oil are referred to as this.
What are petrochemicals?
The amount of water in the earth's atmosphere.
What is humidity?
When a metal is easily shapable, it is referred to as this.
What malleable?