Natural Resources
Vocabulary
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• Color the picture
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Vocabulary Words
• Non-renewable resource – an energy resource
that takes millions of years to form from the
remains of plants and animals such as coal, oil,
and natural gas
• Renewable resource – an energy resource that
is replaceable by natural means such as trees
or wind
• Inexhaustible resource – an energy resource
immediately replace and will not run out
• Biomass – biological material such as plants
material or animal waste converted to a
useable energy source, a renewable resource
Vocabulary Words
• Solar energy – the Sun’s energy is collected and
converted to useable energy, an inexhaustible
resource
• Geothermal energy – heat is harnessed
(captured) from deep beneath the Earth’s surface
and converted to a useable energy, an
inexhaustible resource
• Hydropower – the movement of water moving
through a dam is converted to a useable energy, a
renewable resource
• Wind energy – turbines harness (capture) the
movement of air and convert it to useable energy,
an inexhaustible resource
Vocabulary Words
• Nuclear power – the splitting of uranium
atoms to release energy; nonrenewable
resource
• Natural gas – a gas usually found above
petroleum deposits and burned to obtain
energy, a non-renewable fossil fuel
• Petroleum/Oil – liquid petroleum formed from
once living marine organisms and burned to
obtain energy, a non-renewable fossil fuel
• Coal – a hard, black substance extracted from
the ground and burned to obtain energy, a
non-renewable fossil fuel