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