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Every day, you employ plants and creatures from the dinosaur epoch as energy supplies to do what?
Power Vehicles, Produce Heat, and Generate Electricity
Dodos, or flightless birds, used to inhabit where?
Mauritius
What is the term used to describe planting trees to replace lost forestland?
Reforestation
What provides energy to plants, which use it to produce their own food?
The Sun
Earth’s most important natural resources include what?
Air, Water, Soils, Forests, and Minerals
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives is known as what?
Environment
The interrelated aspects of an ecosystem are in a ________ balance.
Fragile
Dodos were first observed in what year?
1507
Resources Earth replaces naturally is known as what?
Renewable Resources
What conditions limit where plants and animals can live?
Temperature, Rainfall, and Soil Conditions
Which mineral resources are considered quite valuable?
Metals, Salt, Rocks, and Gemstones
Soil deteriorates and can no longer support as many plants, resulting in the expansion of desert in what sort of environment?
Fragile Dry Environments
Which country is oil-rich but lacks water for food production?
Saudi Arabia
Resources that cannot be replaced is know as what?
Nonrenewable Resources
What action has serious repercussions and can cause the soil to erode?
Clearing Land
When were the Dodos extinct?
1681
What do geothermal power plants produce by using steam and hot water from within the Earth?
Electricity
What is the term for entirely dying out?
Extinct
What is the term for desert-like conditions?
Desertification
Who or what has the ability to adapt to certain environments?
Plants and Animals
What is the name of an extinct flightless bird that once lived on an Indian Ocean island?
Dodos
The clearing of trees is known as what?
Deforestation
What is another term for oil?
Petroleum
Nuclear power does not harm the air, but it does generate hazardous wastes, which must be stored for how long?
Thousands of Years
What more is required for life in addition to air and water?
Fertile Soil
What is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel?
Natural Gas
What are the most important fossil fuels?
Coal, Petroleum, and Natural Gas
Renewable resources include what?
Water, Soil, Trees, Plants, and Animals
Why are people clearing Earth's rain forests?
Farmland, Lumber, and other reasons
When petroleum is first extracted from the earth, it is termed what?
Crude Oil
Soils can lose fertility in a variety of ways, including wind and water ________, which can remove topsoil.
Erosion
When plants and animals die, their remains decompose and produce what, for what?
Nutrients for the Soil and New Plant Growth
What determines which plants will grow and how well?
Soils
What is the name given to oil that has been treated to make items like plastic and cosmetics?
Petrochemicals
What is the name given to decayed plant or animal matter?
Humus
What is the term for heat originating from within the Earth?
Geothermal Energy
What do we do with microscopic particles of matter to produce nuclear energy?
Splitting Atoms
What is the name for nonrenewable materials created from the remains of ancient plants and animals?
Fossil Fuels
What is coal mainly used for today?
Create Electricity at Power Plants
What resource helped the United States become one of the world’s wealthiest countries?
Natural Resources
What is the name for a location where a plant or animal lives?
Habitat
What are examples of ecosystems?
Garden pond, a City Park, a Prairie, and a Rain Forest
What provides nourishment, directly or indirectly, for all other life in the forest?
Plants
We transform metals to manufacture items like bicycles and watches, so the majority of natural resources are what?
Raw materials for other products
Where do the most diversified environments on Earth exist?
Tropical rain forests
A group of plants and animals that rely on one another for survival and the environment in which they reside is known as what?
Ecosystem
What has traditionally served as a reliable source of heat?
Coal
What elements have contributed to the United States' status as one of the world's wealthiest countries?
Natural Resources
What causes species to die out or become extinct?
Extreme changes in ecosystems
What is the name given to the process of producing energy using waterpower?
Hydroelectric Power