Fossil FOOLS
A natural fuel formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms
What are FOSSIL FUELS?
Natural resources that can be replaced by natural processes faster than we are using them
What are RENEWABLE RESOURCES?
a percentage of open spaces between grains in a rock
what is porosity?
The reason that humans cannot drink salt water
What are shrinking cells?
The three main types of fossil fuels
What are COAL, OIL, AND NATURAL GAS?
Natural resources that are being used up faster than they can be replaced
What are NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES?
the ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it.
What is permeability?
The percent of earth's water that is salty
What is 97 %?
The most commonly used fossil fuel
What is OIL?
energy source that uses kinetic energy from wind and does not cause pollution
what is WIND TURBINES?
a mineral that is profitable and useful
what is an ore?
Most of earth's freshwater supply are stored here
what are icecaps and glaciers?
Fossil fuels take hundreds of millions of years to form, so they are considered this...
What is NONRENEWABLE?
It is the most widely used source of renewable energy in the world today: comes from stored potential energy of water behind dams
What is HYDROELECTRIC POWER
The location/facility where fission reactions is used to change water into steam
What are NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS?
The gulf of Thailand is a major source of
OIL;PETROLEUM
The original source of most of the energy we use on earth
What is THE SUN?
Even though nuclear power does not create greenhouse gases, it does create this harmful byproduct
What is NUCLEAR WASTE/RADIOACTIVE DECAY
Where earth's copper tends to form
What are hydrothermal deposits and subduction zones?