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28 Cards in this Set
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Things that come from the earth, in which we use?
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Natural Resources.
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Forests and Soil?
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Renewable Resources.
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IF the same crop is planted year after year, a field may suffer nutrient loss; this leads to?
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Soil Exhaustion.
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Solution, alternating planting different crops year after year?
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Crop Rotation.
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Water is artificially supplied to the land, but soil salinization [salt build up in the soil] can occur because of it?
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Irrigation.
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Renewable. Provides oxygen, habitats, resources, lumber, herbs?
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Forests.
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Cut down trees?
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Deforestation.
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Replant trees?
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Reforestation.
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Air and Water - Renewable or Non-Renewable?
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Renewable
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Need it to survive, but pollution threatens the air supply?
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Air.
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A type of pollution?
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Acid Rain.
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Maintaining supply is difficult for some cities?
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Water.
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Uses dams, canals, reservoirs, and aqueducts to control... ?
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Water Supplies.
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Artificial channels for transporting water?
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Aquesducts.
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People use wells to reach ground water and drilled to?
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Aquifers.
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Places where ground water is plentiful?
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Aquifers.
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Fossil - Water: Renewable or Non-Renewable?
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Non-Renewable.
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Solid substances that come out of the ground?
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Minerals.
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Create Heat and force?
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Energy Resources
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Comes from Uranium, creates waste?
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Nuclear Power
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Cleaner than fossil fuels, creates electricity?
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Nuclear Energy
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Coal, Natural Gas, And Petroleum are formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals?
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Fossil Fuels
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Used for heat, electricity, and used for early steam engines and steel mills?
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Coal
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Used for the gasoline diesel and heating fuel, asphalt, and other products. Used to generate electricity?
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Petroleum
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Used for home and industrial heating, used to generate electricity. Its burns more cleanly than coal, is abundant, but its prices will grow?
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Natural Gas
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Waterpower, windpower, heat from the Earth's interior and solar energy?
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Renewable Energy Resources
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Using water to create electricity?
Dams, running water, elevation are the 3 things you need. |
Hydroelectric Power.
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Used to propel ships, windmills, wind turbines, but may take thousands of wind turbines to equal the electricity of a conventional power plant?
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Wind
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