Topic 6 (3-4) Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

What is an ore?

• An inexpensive deposit of minerals.

• A mineral deposit large enough and valuable enough to be mined for profit.

• Minerals that are extracted from the ground that have no real value.

• A mineral source that is used for fuel.

What is a resource that cannot be replenished?

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resource

• desalination

• crystallize

What is the removal of salt from ocean water called?

• nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• desalination

• crystallize

What are resources that can be replenished?

• nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• desalination

• crystallize

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To form a crystal structure with a pattern that repeats.

• nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• desalination

• crystallize

Groundwater that exists from precipitation and runoff that sinks into cracks in rocks. Deep underground reservoirs take thousands of years to _.

• drill

• filter

• accumulate

• distribute

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Scientists believe some groundwater is so deep it will take millions of years of _ to exchange with surface water.

• tectonic activity

• gravity

• pressure

• evaporation

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The most abundant water resource on Earth is _.

• salt water

• fresh water

• groundwater

• surface water

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Oil and natural gas are _ resources.

• desalinization

• crystallize

• renewable

• nonrenewable

What is the reason why some places lack fresh water while others have plenty of fresh water?

• Water sources are not available to some people because they live where the water cycle is not active.

• Some freshwater sources are not available because they are trapped in underground aquifers.

• Water sources are unequally distributed, and much of the freshwater is tied up as ice in glaciers and ice caps.

• Some places lack freshwater due to improper damming of natural waterways.

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