Natural Resources Chapter 5 Vocabulary Test

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nonrenewable resource resource that is used faster than it can be replaced by natural processes nuclear energy energy released from atomic reactions reclamation process in which mined land must be recovered with soil and replanted with vegetation renewable resource a resource that can be replaced by natural processes in a relatively short amount of time biomass energy energy produced by burning organic matter, such as wood, food scraps, and alcohol geothermal energy thermal energy from Earth's interior hydroelectric power electricity produced by flowing water solar energy energy from the Sun wind farm group of wind turbines that produce electricity deforestation cutting of large areas of forests for human activities ore deposit of a mineral that is large enough to be mined for a profit acid precipitation precipitation that has a pH less that 5.6 photochemical smog brownish haze produced when nitrogen compounds and other pollutants in the air react in the presence of sunlight