Unit 3 Lesson 3 - Nonrenewable Resources

Is a natural resource that humans use to generate energy.

• Renewable Resources

• Fossil Fuel

• Energy Resource

• Non-renewable Resources

Are replaced by natural processes at least as quickly as they are used.

• Fossil Fuels

• Renewable Resources

• Nonrenewable Resources

• Energy Resources

Are used up faster than they can be replaced.

• Energy Resources

• Renewable Resources

• Fossil Fuels

• Nonrenewable Resources

Fossil Fuel

• Is a nonrenewable resource that forms from remain of organisms that lived long ago.

• Is a natural resource that humans use to generate energy.

• Is the energy in the nucleus, or core of an atom. Is the energy released when the nuclei of atoms are split or combined.

Is the enery in the nucleus, or core of an atom. Is the energy released when the nuclei of atoms are split or combined.

• Nuclear Energy

• Fossil Fuel

• Energy Resource

• Renewable Resource

Are tiny units that make up all matter in the universe.

• Nuclear Fission

• Fossil Fuel

• Atoms

• Nuclear Fusion

The energy released when the nuclei of atoms is split or combine.

• Nuclear energy

• Nuclear Fusion

• Nuclear Fission

Process in which the nuclei of an atom join together.

• Nuclear energy

• Nuclear fusion

• Nuclear fission

Process in which the nuclei of an atom split into two or more fragments.

• Nuclear fusion

• Nuclear energy

• Nuclear fission

Oil is considered a nonrenewable resource.

• True

• False