Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Renewable Energy Sources
Mineral Resources
Water Resources
Miscellaneous
100

The definition of a nonrenewable resource

What is something the cannot be replaced, or takes millions of years to form?

100

The definition of a renewable resource

What is a resource that we cannot run out of because they are replaced by nature, or with a little help from us?

100

A mineral deposit that is large enough and valuable enough to be extracted from the ground

What is an ore?

100

The percent of the Earth's water that is freshwater

What is 3%?

100

Another name for oil

What is petroleum? 

200

The three fossil fuels

What is coal, oil, and natural gas?

200

The 5 most common forms of renewable energy

What is solar energy, hydroelectric energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, and bioenergy?

200

The definition of crystallize

What is when a solution hardens to form a new mineral?

200

The removal of salt and minerals from saltwater to make freshwater

What is desalination?

200

Gold, quartz, and talc are examples of this

What are minerals?

300

A form of nonrenewable energy that takes place in power plants and relies on uranium

What is nuclear energy?

300

The source of renewable energy most common globally. In Oklahoma.

What is hydroelectric energy? What is wind energy?

300

The determining factors in the distribution of minerals

What is how and when they form?

300

Water is considered a renewable resource because of this

What is the water cycle will continuously replenish Earth's water?

300

20% of Earth's freshwater 

What is groundwater?

400

How fossil fuels are formed

What is from the preserved remains of organisms over millions of years?

400

The two fastest growing renewable energy resources

What is wind energy and solar energy?

400

Most of Earth's common minerals found here

What is in the Earth's crust?

400

Most fresh surface water is found here

What is lakes, rivers, and streams, as well as swamps and marshes?

400

The two types solar energy

What is passive solar power and active solar power?

500

The name of the process that is used acquire natural gas

What is fracking?

500

The two biggest drawbacks of renewable resources

What is the cost and the inconsistency/dependability?

500

The three ways that minerals form

What is organic material, solutions, and magma and lava?

500

The percentage of Earth's freshwater that is locked in ice caps and glaciers

What is 79%?

500

Organic matter such as wood, grasses, and coconut husks that are burned for energy

What is biomass?