Ch. 4 Earth's Resources Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. resource that can be replenished in months, years, or decades
  2. 5. forms from remains of plants & animals.
  3. 6. source of pollution from a known location
  4. 8. forms when heat/pressure transform plant material
  5. 9. pollution with no specific point of origin
  6. 11. energy formed by fission
  7. 12. could meet 5-10% of U.S. energy needs
  8. 14. uses underground steam & hot water
  9. 16. takes millions of years to form & accumulate
  10. 17. careful use of resources
  11. 20. deposit formed when minerals settle quickly from moving water.
Down
  1. 1. energy that uses water to drive turbines
  2. 2. hydrocarbon used as an energy source
  3. 3. rock containing kerogen.
  4. 7. best known placer deposit
  5. 10. uses ocean tides to create power
  6. 13. collecting items for reuse
  7. 15. liquid that forms from remains of plants & animals.
  8. 18. Earth's most abundant energy resource
  9. 19. form thick tar called bitumen.