Energy resources
Across
- 3. to decrease or seriously exhaust the supply of a resource
- 5. a gas made up of three oxygen atoms (O3) that is both naturally occurring and man made made, depending on where it is found determines whether it is good or bad
- 7. sharing something out among a number of people
- 10. ________ resources that can be replaced through natural processes at a rate equal to or greater than the rate at which they are being used (air, freshwater, soil, living things, sunlight)
- 11. ______ cells :solar cell, an electrical device that converts the energy from the sun into electricity
- 16. remove or take out, often using force
- 17. capable of being used up or running out
Down
- 1. prevention of wasteful use of a resource
- 2. __________ effect is the process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat causing climate change
- 4. Carbon _________: the amount of greenhouse gas emissions an individual or group is responsible for
- 6. ___________ resources that can be exhausted because they are being used at a rate much greater than the rate at which they form (fossil fuels, diamonds, metals, minerals)
- 8. how water flows through the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land
- 9. convert waste into reusable material
- 12. a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid.
- 13. _______ Resources materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
- 14. _______ Fuels a natural fuel such as coal, natural gas, and oil that are formed from the remains of living organisms
- 15. ______ Change a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the Earth's atmosphere over a long period of time