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coal
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a solid fossil fuel formed underground from buried, decomposed plant material
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deposit
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newly formed sediments from water, ice, wind and gravity
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fossil fuels
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nonrenewable energy resources that form in the Earth's crust over millions of years
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heat
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the transfer of energy between objects at different temperatures
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inexhaustible resource
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a resource that exists in such large supply that it is considered almost limitless
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natural gas
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a gaseous fossil fuel
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natural resources
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any natural substance, organism, or energy form that living things use
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nonrenewable resource
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a natural resource that cannot be replaced or that can be replaced only over thousands or millions of years
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oil
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a liquid fossil fuel pumped from underground
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organic materials
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material that has come from a once-living organism and can decay
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plate tectonics
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the motions of tectonic plates
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pressure
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the amount of force exerted on a given area
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renewable resource
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a natural resource that can be used over and over or that has an unlimited supply
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water cycle
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the continuous movement of water above, on, and below the Earth's surface
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