Natural Resources

2. - How easily water, oil, or natural gas can move through connected spaces in rock.
5. - A liquid fossil fuel formed mainly from ancient microscopic organisms buried in sediment and changed by heat over millions of years.
7. - A solid fossil fuel formed from ancient swamp plants that were buried and changed by heat and pressure over millions of years.
9. - The process of dropping sediment in a new location, such as a riverbed, lake, or ocean.
11. - An underground layer of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows it to flow.
12. - A ______ resource can be naturally replaced within a relatively short amount of time.
14. - The amount of empty space within rock that can hold water, oil, or natural gas.

1. - Plate ______ is the movement of Earth's large crustal plates that can create mountains, faults, and basins.
3. - The process that removes water and leaves behind concentrated minerals, helping create Utah's salt flats.
4. - Areas affected by ancient volcanic activity and plate tectonics may contain concentrated deposits of valuable ______ such as copper, gold, and silver.
6. - The process of breaking rocks into smaller pieces without moving them away.
8. - The process in which dissolved minerals form solid crystals, such as salt.
9. - Uneven ______ means natural resources are not spread equally throughout Earth.
10. - A ______ resource takes millions of years to form or cannot be replaced as quickly as we use it.
13. - The movement of rock and sediment by wind, water, ice, or gravity.