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Flashcards by Haroon Nadeem, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Haroon Nadeem
over 7 years ago
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| What are Natural resources? A resource is anything obtained from the Earth to stisfy a particular need of humans or other living things. | |
| What are Made resources? Man-made resources are items or substances that have value to human lives that do not occur in the natural world. | |
| What are Renewable resource? A renewable resource is a resource which can be used repeatedly because it is replaced naturally. | |
| What are non-renewable resources? A nonrenewable resource is a resource of economic value that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption. | |
| What is Hydroelectricity? Hydroelectricity or hydroelectric power is the electricity obtained by harnessing the power of water flowing down from a high level. | |
| What is Biomass? Biomass is a material, such as dead plants,other types of plant matter, or animals and their wastes, from which energy can be obtained. | |
| What is solar energy? Solar energy is energy which is created from sunlight, or heat from the sun. Solar power is captured when energy from the sun is converted into electricity or used to heat air, water, or other fluids. | |
| What is wind energy? Wind power is the use of air flow through wind turbines to mechanically power generators for electricity. | |
| What is Geothermal energy? Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth. It's clean and sustainable. Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma. | |
| What is an water cycle? the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration. | |
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