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Resource Types
Pollution
Alternative Energy Sources
Conservation
Depletion of Resources
100
Recycled or replaced through natural processes at a rate that is equal to or greater than the rate at which they are being used
What is renewable resource?
100
Form of air pollution created when sunlight reacts with pollutants produced by burning fuels.
What is smog?
100
Electricity that is produced when the energy of falling water is used to turn the turbines of an electric generator.
What is hydroelectric power?
100
The three R's
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
100
Produced when raw sewage and excess fertilizer containing large amounts of nitrogen enter a lake or pond causing increase in algae.
What is algal bloom?
200
resources which are being extracted and used at a much faster rate than the rate at which they were formed.
What is nonrenewable resources?
200
Has a pH below 5.6
What is acid precipitation?
200
Can produce radioactive wastes that seriously harm living organisms
What is nuclear power?
200
Preventing the loss of a resource, usually living things, by managing their environment to increase the chances of survival.
What is Protecting?
200
If this washes into a river or stream can block sunlight and slow photosynthesis.
What is eroded soil
300
The most commonly used fossil fuel at about 39% consumption
What is oil?
300
Pollutants primarily responsible for acid rain
What is sulfur and nitrogen oxides (pollution from burning coal and car exhaust)?
300
Available only where natural geysers or volcanoes are found
What is Geothermal Energy?
300
The Conservationist President
What is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
300
This type of polluted water is difficult—and sometimes impossible—to clean.
What is groundwater
400
The length of time required for nonrenewable resources to be replaced.
What is millions of years?
400
One of the most common greenhouse gases.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
Two types of energy used to produce steam that rotates the turbine blades of an electric generator.
What is Nuclear and Geothermal?
400
More difficult to recycle than other materials.
What is plastic?
400
Second leading cause of lung cancer in US
What is radon
500
Formed mostly from the remains of microscopic marine organisms buried in the Earth’s crust
What is petroleum?
500
Produces or causes the greenhouse effect.
What is warming due to sunlight becoming trapped by atmospheric/greenhouse gases?
500
Uses photovoltaic cells to turn sunlight into electric current.
What is solar cells/power?
500
Can be recycled again and again. It never needs to be thrown away.
What is glass?
500
Fuel-burning stoves and heaters must be designed to prevent this poisonous gas from building up indoors.
What is carbon monoxide