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Energy Resources By: Jaylen and Roquesha

Natural Resources

Any natural substance, organisms, or energy form that living things use

Examples: Tree, Water, Wind, Natural Gas, Solar Energy.

Renewable Resources

A resource that can be replaced in a lifetime.

Example: Trees, Water, Sunlight, Wind.

Nonrenewable resources

Resources that will not replace themselves in a lifetime.

Coal,oil,

Recycling Recycling is when you use discarded or

used materials are treated and then used again.

Plastic, glass, paper, and aluminum.

Energy resource

Natural resources that humans use to produce energy.

Different types like nonrenewable and renewable resources.

Ex. Natural gas, solar energy, and Hydro energy.

Fossil Fuels

Fuels that are made from the remains of animals millions of years ago.

Coal, and natural gas.

Petroleum

An oily mixture of flammable organic compounds from which liquid fossil fuels.

Natural Gas

Gaseous fossil fuels. Most natural gas is used for heating and

for generating electricity.

Coal

A solid fossil fuel formed underground from buried, decomposed plan material.

Strip Mining

A process in which rock and soil are stripped from the Earth’s surface to expose materials to be mined.

Acid Precipitation

Rain or snow that has high acid content

Smog

A photochemical fog produced by the reaction of sunlight and air pollutants

Nuclear Energy

An alternative source of energy that comes from nuclei of atoms.

Solar Energy

Energy from the sun.

Wind Energy

Energy in wind.

Hydroelectricity Energy

Produced by falling or running water

Biomass

Organic Matter that contains energy

Geothermal

Energy from within the Earth