Environmental Science: Unit 6 Vocabulary

Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

• biofuel

• fossil fuels

• conservation

• nonrenewable

• wind turbine

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame

• biofuel

• fossil fuels

• conservation

• nonrenewable

• wind turbine

A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

• biofuel

• fossil fuels

• conservation

• nonrenewable

• wind turbine

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

Propeller driven by the wind and connected to a generator; the wind makes it turn the generator, which produces electricity

• biofuel

• fossil fuels

• conservation

• nonrenewable

• wind turbine

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-PS3-3

Fuel derived from living matter

• biofuel

• fossil fuels

• conservation

• nonrenewable

• wind turbine

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Flammable gas, consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons, occurring naturally underground and used as fuel

• fracking

• geothermal

• petroleum

• renewable

• natural gas

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

natural resource that is produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed

• fracking

• geothermal

• petroleum

• renewable

• natural gas

Energy from steam or hot water produced from tectonic activity underground

• fracking

• geothermal

• petroleum

• renewable

• natural gas

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

The extraction of oil or natural gas from dense rock formations by creating cracks in rock and then flushing the oil/gas out using pressurized fluid

• fracking

• geothermal

• petroleum

• renewable

• natural gas

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

liquid fossil fuel; oil

• fracking

• geothermal

• petroleum

• renewable

• natural gas

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-6