Chapter 16 Natural Resources

A material found in nature that God made for people to use

• natural resource

• non-renewable

• natural hazard

• synthetic resource

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A natural resource that can be replaced

• natural resource

• renewable resource

• non-renewable resource

• fossil fuel

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Energy that uses moving water to make electricity

• hydroelectric energy

• wind energy

• solar energy

• fossil fuel

formed when plants or animals die and are buried quickly and put under great pressure

• fossil fuels

• hydroelectric energy

• solar energy

• wind energy

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Energy that uses the flow of air to produce power

• solar energy

• wind energy

• hydroelectric energy

• fossil fuel

A natural resource that cannot be replaced easily

• non-renewable resource

• renewable resource

• natural resource

• reusable resource

Energy from the sun that is used to produce electricity and thermal energy

• solar energy

• sun energy

• hydroelectric energy

• wind energy

How can farmers maintain soil?

• clearing the land of all ground cover

• controlling erosion

• not replacing nutrients

• bring in more

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Noise pollution caused by wind turbines

• is an advantage of renewable energy.

• is a disadvantage of renewable energy.

• is neither an advantage nor disadvantage of renewable energy.

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Fossil fuels are nonrenewable

• is an advantage.

• is a disadvantage.

• is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

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