Nonrenewable Resources
Fossil fuels and minerals are considered what.
What are nonrenewable resources?
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Waste gases from automobiles and power plants combine with moisture in the air.
What is acid rain?
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Manufacturing new products out of used products.
What is recycling?
page 836
Air, water, land, and living things are considered what.
What is renewable resources?
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Geothermal energy, solar energy, and wind power are considered what.
What is inexhaustible resources?
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Coal, oil, and natural gas are considered what.
What are fossil fuels?
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Contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere.
What causes air pollution?
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Meeting human needs in ways that ensure future generations also will be able to meet their needs.
What is sustainability?
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A mixture of gases that forms a layer of around the earth.
What is atmosphere?
page 816
Heat and light from the sun.
What is solar energy?
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The fuel used to generate electricity in power plants.
What is uranium?
page 815
The components sewage and wastewater.
What causes water pollution?
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Restoring damaged habitats and ecosystems to their original state.
What is restoring and rethinking?
page 836
It consists of nitrogen and oxygen.
What is air made of?
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Thermal energy from within earth.
What is geothermal energy?
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This formed from the decayed remains of trees, ferns, and other swamp plants died 300-400 million years ago.
What is black rock layer?
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The components litter, waste, urbanization, construction, mining, extraction and agriculture.
What causes land pollution?
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Reduce the amount of waste you create simply by reducing the amount of material you use.
What is reducing and reusing?
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Forests, grasslands, deserts, and coral reefs.
What is land?
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Uses energy from the sun to heat water.
What is a water heater?
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Fuel used in transportation fuel, chemicals, medicines, heart valves, contact lenses, and bandages.
What is Petroleum?
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Prevent most harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching earth.
What is the ozone layer?
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People can help protect resources by reducing their.
Resources, reusing products, and recycling products.
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A has less precipitation than normal over a few months or even longer.
What is a drought?
page 817
Generated by the suns uneven heating of the Earth's lower atmosphere.
What is wind power?
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