Renewable Resources
This is used to power homes and produce electricity.
What is solar energy?
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This is the cutting of large areas of forest for human activities.
What is deforestation?
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Water is a main_________for Blood.
What is component?
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Are resources that are used faster than they can be replaced by natural processes.
What is nonrenewable resources?
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This is the process in which mined land must be recovered with soil and replanted with vegetation.
What is reclamation?
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Solar, wind, water, geothermal, and biomass are all.
What is renewable energy resources?
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This is used for wires, brass fixtures, plumbing.
What is copper?
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In the human body, water helps protect.
What is body tissue?
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Nonrenewable Resources are __________________.
What is fossil fuels, and uranium?
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This is the energy released from atomic reactions.
What is nuclear energy?
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This is a group of wind turbines that produce electricity.
What is wind farm?
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Soil and water quality is affected by___________.
What is runoff?
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Makes up 97% of Earths water.
What is salt water?
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Name one factor fossil fuels depend to form.
What is the type of organic matter?
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This is the source of the most energy in the United States.
What is oil?
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This reduces the amount of oil used to make the gasoline.
What is ethanol?
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This is the purpose for cutting down forest.
What is fuel, paper products, and wood products?
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In the year 1995 about how much sulfur compounds was in the Atmosphere.
What is 100?
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This is a process in which atoms are split.
What is nuclear fission?
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This is 16.1% of sources of energy used in the U.S. in 2015.
What is coal?
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This meets only 9.8% of U.S energy needs.
What is renewable energy?
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Managing land resources is called__________.
What is community gardens?
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About how much of Earths water is available from humans to use.
What is 0.9%?
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The additional layers of sediment covered and compacted the peat, and over time it changed into successively harder types of coal.
What is present day?
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Oil and ___________come from wells drilled into Earth.
What is natural gas?
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