Metallic and Nonmetallic mineral resources
Limestone is an example of this
What is a non-metallic mineral resource?
The percetage of clean, drinkable water on Earth
What is less than 1 percent.
Fossil Fuels are this type of resource.
What are non-renewable resources?
This land resource needs protection.
What are our forests?
This type of energy is promoted because it is non-polluting and free.
Deposits from which minerals can be extracted at a profit are called.
What is mineral reserves.
One example of a greenhouse gas
What is carbon dioxide?
This type of hydrocarbon is typically found in Oil Shale
What is kerogen?
Defination of a virgin forest.
What is a forest than has never been cut down?
Cars with hybrid engines are a good way to reduce this.
What is air pollution?
Gold is an example of
Pollution from a known source is called
The first layer of coal.
What is peat?
What is Sanitary Landfill?
Cost of building safe facilities is a problem facing this type of energy.
What is nuclear energy?
Igneous process that generates some of the best mineral deposits
What is hydrothermal solutions?
A way that farmers can protect land resources
What is contour plowing/contour farming?
Two things an oil trap has.
What are permeable reservoir rock and a cap rock.
These are an example of land resources.
What are forests?
Noise pollution is a problem for this type of energy.
What is Wind Energy?
The nonmetallic mineral most commonly found in glass
What is Quartz?
The year the Safe Water Act was passed.
What is 1974?
Our 3 top Fossil Fuels.
What are coal, natural gas and petroleum?
This act was passed in 1972 and aimed to reduce point source pollution into surface waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Huge nuclear accident in Ukraine in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?