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Nonrenewable Resources
Alternative Energy
Alternative Energy
Conservation of Energy
Miscellaneous
100
Material that is formed from the decay of ancient organisms. We use this to produce energy.
What is Fossil Fuels
100
Living and nonliving resources that can be replaced naturally.
What is renewable resources
100

Power generated using flowing water.

What is Hydroelectric power?

100

Two ways  to conserve energy.

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100
Remains or traces of ancient organisms that were preserved in soil or rock.
What is fossils
200
The three main types of fossil fuels.
What is Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas
200
3 MAIN sources of alternative energy.
What is wind, water, and sun
200

Giant windmills make electricity.

What is Wind Energy?

200

Two ways to save water.

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200

It tells you how old it is compared to other rocks.

What is Relative Age of a rock?

300
Coal, oil, and natural gas are made from these remains.
What is dead plants and animals (decay of ancient organisms)
300
A machine in which air or water turns a wheel to produce energy.
What is turbine
300

Special panels make electricity using the sun.

What is Solar Energy?

300

The term used to describe the rising of the average temperature on Earth. 

What is Global Warming?

300

A unit of time measured in millions of years.

What is an era

400
This Fossil Fuel was made below land, while the others were made below the ocean.
What is Coal
400

Two less common renewable resources. One creates energy from Earth's internal heat. The other creates energy from burning organic material.

What is geothermal power and biomass?

400

Waste material from plants and animals is used to make this energy.

What is Biomass?

400

The layer of gas that protects living things from the sun's dangerous rays.

What is the ozone layer?

400

A source of energy other than the burning of the fossil fuel.

What is the ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE?

500

This layer of sediment is created over millions of years when pressure from the weight of the layers of dead plants and animals press together.

What is Peat

500
Two LIMITED renewable resources.
What is water, trees, crops, etc.
500

Uranium is a chemical element and is a radioactive metal that is found in rocks, which is used to make this energy.

What is Nuclear Energy?

500

A natural process that warms the Earth's surface. 

What is green house effect?

500
This law tells us that each layer of rock is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it.
What is the Law of Superposition