Fossil Fuel
What are the 3 types of fossil fuels?
Oil,Coal and Natural Gas
Gold is a natural resource because it occurs naturally in the environment and humans use it. It cannot be made from other substances and there is a finite supply of it. What is gold an example of?
a non-renewable resource
What does "precipitation" mean?
Water falling from the sky. It could be rain, snow, or even hail.
The act of minimizing the waste that we make by using less resources.
Reduce
What kind of dead organisms create oil/petroleum?
Marine plants like algae and Marine animals
Ring of Fire
Is water a renewable or nonrenewable resource?
Renewable
Use items more than once to produce less waste or taking old items you might otherwise throw away and finding a new use for them.
Reuse
Which Fossil Fuel can be converted into Natural Gas?
Coal
Why are some minerals so rare and unevenly distributed?
Certain minerals form only under high heat and pressure that develop near volcanoes
Underground layer that holds water
Aquifer
Changing discarded materials into new products in order to avoid using more natural resources.
Recycle
Venezuela currently has the most oil reserves. What kind of landscape did Venezuela have about 200 million years ago?
Ocean
Minerals formed by magma and lava can be found near what type of tectonic boundary?
Convergent
This kind of rock or soil lets water sink into the ground.
Permeable Rock or Soil
Decline to use things that we do not need to avoid unnecessary waste.
Refuse
What 2 problems come from burning fossil fuels?
Non-renewable and pollution
This mineral is also known as the poor man's gold, used in electrical systems, pipes and formed 340 million years ago.
Copper
What percent of the Earth's water is freshwater (suitable for human use)?
3%
Finding a new for an item that you might otherwise throw away.
Repurpose