Natural Resources vocab words

Things humans use that occur naturally in nature

• Natural resources

• renewable resources

• Reduce

• Non Renewable resources

Things like the sun, wind, and water that can be used indefinitely to provide humans with something they need

• Renewable resources

• Fossil Fuels

• Recycle

• Natural resources

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Cannot be replaced such as coal, natural gas, and oil

• Fossil fuels

• resources

• nonrenewable resources

• reduce

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Fuels that come from old life forms that decomposed over a long period of time

• reduce

• reuse

• Fossil fuels

• resources

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Energy produced from the sun to generate electricity

• Solar energy

• Potential energy

• Kinetic energy

• resources

something that can be used for a purpose

• fossil fuels

• resources

• turbine

• natural resources

to make smaller or less in amounts

• reuse

• reduce

• recycle

• fossil fuels

to use again or more than again

• non renewable resources

• renewable resources

• reduce

• reuse

the process in order to reuse materials

• recycle

• reduce

• renewable resouces

• reuse

a device that uses the energy of a moving gas or liquid to spin a rod

• recycle

• generator

• turbine

• resources

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