Ch. 4 Earth's Resources Vocab

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