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15 Cards in this Set
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What is the careful use and preservation of our natural resources?
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Conservation
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What is to use materials again to make a new product
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Recycle
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What are formed over millions of years from the remains of dead plants and animals
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Fossil Fuels
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What are take from the ground (or under the sea floor)?
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Fossil Fuels
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What are very important energy sources?
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Fossil Fuels
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What is not expensive?
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Fossil Fuels
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What burns mostly fossil fuels? 4 things
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Power plants, industries, buildings, motor vehicles
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Are fossil fuels renewable or nonrenewable?
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nonrenewable
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What is nonrenewable?
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Cannot produce them again in our lifetime. Once they are used they are gone.
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Examples of fossil fuels. (3)
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coal (a solid), oil (a liquid), natural gas
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What are human influences that affect natural resources? (4)
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Pollution (water, air and land) and fire
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True of False: Human action can affect the survival of plants and animals. If so how?
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True. Humans can change habitats.
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What is energy released from an atom in nuclear fission or fusion.
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Nuclear Energy
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T/F Nuclear energy is a very weak energy sources that is nonrenewable
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False except for the nonrenewable part
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What is a black solid substance that is dug up from the ground for use as a fuel. It is a fossil fuel
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Coal
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