Natural Resources
Resources that can be replaced naturally
What is a renewable resource?
The natural resource that we use as gasoline and to make plastics.
What is Petroleum?
Energy directly from the Sun
What is solar energy?
The type of power plant that uses the energy created from breaking apart atoms.
What is a nuclear power plant?
The process of turning liquid water into vapor.
What is evaporation?
Resources that take millions of years to form or have a limited supply.
What are non-renewable resources?
The environmental problem that comes from burning fossil fuels.
What is Climate Change?
Energy from wind moving turbines?
What is wind energy?
The pro of nuclear energy.
What is no pollution and a lot of energy generated?
The process of forming crystals when water evaporates
What is Crystallization ?
3 types of fossil fuels
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas
The reason most countries are still heavily reliant on Fossil Fuels
They are extremely cost and energy efficient.
What water, wind or steam have to turn to generate the electricity.
What are turbines?
The con of nuclear power plants.
What is radioactive waste?
The type of natural resource that is found rocks or ores like limestone
What are minerals?
The reason fossil fuel are considered non-renewable.
They take millions of years to form.
A positive about our shrinking population.
What is a lower energy demand?
What are places don't have equal access to resources and currently very costly.
What is it is very energy efficient and current technology makes it very safe.
The reason wood could be considered both renewable and non-renewable.
What is humans are using it currently at a rate faster than they grow, but we don't have to.
The type of ancient environment that had to exist if coal is found.
The reason we should reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
What is it causes a lot of air pollution and climate change.
The reason that really only rich countries get to experience benefit of alternative energy sources.
What is their high initial cost?
The reason radioactivity is dangerous.
What is causes mutations to DNA.
Human activities that dwindle our water supply.
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