NATURAL RESOURCES &

FOSSIL FUELSChapter 5 lesson 1-2By: Sarah Johnson

&Sammi Taylor

2nd period

Renewable & Non-renewable Resources

Renewable- a natural resource that can be used and replaced over a relatively short time. Ex: Trees

Non-renewable- a natural resource that can not be replaced or can be replaced only over thousands or millions of years. Ex: Coal

Recycling

Recycling- the process by which used or discarded materials are treated for reuse. Ex: reuse water bottles, you can also reuse

your Wal-Mart or Food Lion bags for your trash or to pick up animal feces.

Energy Resources &

Fossil Fuels

Energy Resources- natural resource that humans use to produce energy. Ex: Solar Panels, & Wind Turbines

Fossil Fuels- Non-renewable energy sources that form in the Earth’s crust over millions of years from the buried remains of once-living organisms. Ex: coal, oil, and natural gas.

Petroleum

Petroleum- or cruDE OIL, AN OILY MIXTURE OF FLAMMABLE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM WHICH LIQUID FOSSIL FUELS AND OTHER PRODUCTS SUCH AS, ASPHALT ARE SEPERATED. Ex: oily recovery

Natural Gas

Natural Gas- gaseous fossil fuels

EX. Methane

Coal

Coal- a solid fossil fuel formed underground from buried, decomposed plant material

Strip mining

Strip Mining- the process in which rock and soil are stripped from the Earth’s surface to expose the underline materials, to be mined

EX. Mined coal or tar sand

Air Pollution &

Smog

Air pollution- rain or snow that has a high acid content due to air pollution.

Smog- a photochemical fog produced by the reaction of sunlight and air pollutants.

Resources

Holt Text Book Google.com Bing.com