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Natural Resources | Part of earths enviroment that supply materials useful or necessy for the survival of living organisms. |
Renewable resource | Natural resoures such as water sunlight , and crops that are constantly being recycled. |
Nonrenewable resources | Natural resources such as petroleum minerals and metals that are used nore quickly than they can be replaced by natural proceses. |
Petroleum | Nonrenewable resourse formed over hundreds of millions of years mostly from the remains of microspcic marine organisms buried in earths crust. |
Fossil fuel | Nonrenewable energy resoures coal oil and natural gas that formed in earths crust over hundreds of millions of year. |
Hydroelectric power | Electrity produced when the energy of falling water turns the blades of a generator turbine. |