Earth Resources Vocabulary

nonrenewable

• Can't have any more of it

• Materials that are made by others

• Petroleum, coal, natural gas that cannot be replaced over time

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

natural resource

• materials found on Earth

• materials used by people

• Materials that are dead

• materials found in science

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consumption

• using natural resources

• made by people

• purchase or use of things

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

mining

• digging the earth to find resources

• belonging to only me

• uses resources

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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deposits

• Do this at a bank

• areas with lots of resources

• dropping resources

properties

• a characteristic that makes a material unique

• what resources contain

• aspects of materials used in mining

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

fossil fuels

• produced by living plant material

• made of leaves and rocks

• changed by heat and pressure over a long period of time

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

open pit mining

• under the ground near the center of the Earth

• the ground is opened to get a resource close to the surface

• a process of mining using a large crane

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ore

• rock with metals or other valuable materials

• spelled wrong... should be or

• economically valuable metals

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Wind is an example of renewable energy.

• True

• False