VOCAB: Natural Resource and the Formation of Fossil Fuels

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Materials in the environment useful to people

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Natural Resources

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Natural resources that can regenerate: trees, plants, animals, water, oxygen, soil.

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Renewable Resource

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Natural resources like fossil fuels that are finite and irreplaceable.

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Non Renewable Resource

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Nonrenewable resource from prehistoric remains

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Fossil Fuels

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Solid fossil fuel formed from decomposed plant material

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Coal

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Liquid fossil fuel from ancient plants and animals

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Oil

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Liquid fossil fuel from ancient plants and animals

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Petroleum

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Gas fossil fuel formed from ancient remains under heat and pressure

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Natural Gas

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Decreasing natural resource use to save them

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conservation

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Resource from a product used to create a new product

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Recycle