Non-Renewable Resources
Of these resources, this is NOT a fossil fuel: Coal, natural gas, oil, and uranium?
What is uranium?
These are the two advantages of solar energy
What are that it is free and non-polluting?
This is pollution that comes from a known and specific location such as factory pipes or a leaking landfill
What is point source pollution?
This is the Act that requires industries to reduce or eliminate the release of point source pollution into surface waters
What is the Clean Water Act?
A useful metallic mineral that can be mined for profit
What is an ore?
The two energy sources that might replace dwindling petroleum supplies one day.
What are tar sands and oil shale?
The "fuel" needed for for a nuclear reactor to generate energy comes from splitting the nuclei of this elements' atom
What is Uranium?
Water covers this percentage of Earth's surface
What is 71%?
This is the nation's most important air pollution law
What is The Clean Air Act?
Some of the best known ore deposits are created by these types of solutions
What are hydrothermal solutions?
Fossils fuels are this type of resource
What are non-renewable resources?
This is the kind of alternative energy that is created from falling water turning a turbine
What is hydroelectric energy?
Water that flows over the land, carrying oil from cars or pesticides from farms instead of seeping into the ground is called this
What is runoff?
Farmers use this type of plowing to reduce water runoff that washes away soil
What is contour plowing?
These types of mineral deposits are formed when heavy eroded mineral particles settle out of moving water
What are placer deposits?
This is formed when heat and pressure transform plant material over millions of years
What is coal?
This type of alternative energy is harnessed by tapping natural underground reservoirs of steam and hot water
What is geothermal energy?
This is the function of the Earth's ozone layer
What is that it shields Earth from harmful radiation?
This type of fertilizer can replace chemical fertilizers
What is compost?
These are the two broad groups non-metallic mineral resources are divided into
What are industrial minerals and building materials?
An oil trap is a geologic structure that traps the upward movement of what two natural resources
What are oil and natural gas?
Hydroelectric dams have limited lifetimes because rivers deposit this ______________, that clog them.
What are sediments?
This is the greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, the warming of the lower atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
This is why landfills use plastic or clay liners
What is to prevent wastes from leaking into groundwater?
Of these minerals, this one is a non-metallic mineral: flourite, wood, copper
What is flourite?