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What is a Renewable Resource vs. a nonrenewable resource?
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Renewable- can be replenished over time. ex: plants, food for animals, natrual fibers, and trees
Nonrenewable- takes millions of years ti form and accumulate. ex: coal, oil, natrual gas, copper, iron, uranium |
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what percentage of the population live in the united states
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6%
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What percentage of the world's annual production of mineral and energy resources does the U.S use?
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30%
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what are fossil fuels?
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any ,hydrocarbon that may be used as a source of energy. Fosils furls include coal oil, and natrual gas.
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Desribe how coal is formed. Include stages.
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coal forms when heat and pressure transforms plant material over millions of years. 1. Peat is particuly decayed plant material that somettimes look like soil. 2. Peat then becomes lignite, which is a sedimentay rock that is often called brown coal. 3. continued heat and pressure transforms lignite into bituminous coal or soft coal. Bituminous coal or soft coal. Bituminous coal is another sed. rock 4. Coals last stage of development is a metamorphic rock called anthracite or hard coal. As these stages process coal becomes harder and releases heat when burned.
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know this
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descrive petroleum and natrual gas.
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Petroleum [ oil ] and natrual gas from the remains of plants and animals that were buried in ancient seas. Petroleum begins to form when large quanities of plant and animal remains become buried in ocean floor sediments. Sediments protect the plant no animal remains and as sediments build up, chemical reactions transform these remains into liquid and gases hydrocarbons [ petroleum and natrual gas ]
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