Natural Resources

fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas that form from the remains of plants and other organisms that were buried and altered over millions of years.

• Fossil Fuels

• Coal

• Reserve

is a rock that contains at least 50 percent plant remains.

• Coal

• Oil

• Gas

is a thick, black liquid formed from the buried remains of microscopic marine organisms.

• Oil

• Reserve

• Coal

forms under similar conditions and often with oil, but it forms in a gaseous state.

• Natural Gas

• Coal

• Sola Energy

The amount of a fossil fuel that can be extracted at a profit using current technology.

• Reserve

• Oil

• Natural Gas

is an alternate energy source produced from atomic reactions.

• Nuclear energy

• Reserve

• Wind farm

is energy from the sun

• Nuclear energy

• Solar energy

• Wind farm

a Large number of windmills are placed in one area for the purpose of generating electricity

• Nuclear energy

• Hydroelectric energy

• Wind farm

electricity produced by waterpower

• Nuclear energy

• Hydroelectric energy

• Solar energy

energy obtained by using hot magma or hot, dry rocks inside Earth

• Biothermal energy

• Wind farm

• Solar energy