Earthy Definitions
A layer of sand, gravel, or bedrock that holds and moves ground water.
What is an aquifer?
It is formed when the remains of plants and animals are buried quickly.
What is a fossil fuel?
Coal, natural gas, and petroleum all belong to this resource classification
What is nonrenewable?
Water stored beneath the surface of the earth is given this name.
What is ground water?
This term describes all the materials available on Earth for man's use.
What are natural resources?
A solid substance found naturally in the earth’s surface.
What is a mineral?
This energy resource uses steam to turn turbines to produce electricity.
What is geothermal energy?
Because it can be replaced by natural means in a relatively short period of time, geothermal energy belongs to this classification.
What is renewable?
Along with evaporation, water returns to the sky from plants through this process.
What is transpiration?
This is the best method to keep empty fields from eroding during seasons when crops are not planted.
What is planting a ground cover?
A concentrated area of a specific mineral
What is a vein?
This energy type uses water flow to generate electricity, but does NOT use windmills to control it.
What is hydroelectric energy?
A term for metals like aluminum are able to be dented or shaped.
What is malleable?
This forms when sea water freezes, unlike a floating ice shelf which comes from land ice.
What is sea ice?
If a field's corn production is steadily decreasing over thirty years, a farmer can do this to the field for a season to help the soil recover.
What is letting it lie fallow?
This specific mineral is used to produce nuclear energy
What is uranium?
This type of energy is efficient and clean, but leaves behind used fuel requiring special storage to avoid harming the environment.
What is nuclear energy?
True or False: All of Earth's water is referred to as the biosphere
What is False? (It is the hydrosphere)
The oceans provide fresh water to land surfaces through this continuous atmospheric cycle.
What is the water cycle?
This specific type of pollution would NOT occur as a result of using traditional fossil fuels.
What is radioactive pollution?
A factory that separates crude oil into different products.
What is a refinery?
Requiring large land areas is a major shared disadvantage of wind energy and this other clean energy source.
This metal holds the title for being the most abundant metal in the earth's crust.
What is aluminum?
oceans provide oxygen to our planet via the photosynthesis of these tiny organisms.
What is phytoplankton?
These three actionable words describe what you can do to help conserve natural resources.
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?