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Natural Resources Test Practice 2022 with COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

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Natural Resources Test Practice 2022 with COMPLETE SOLUTIONS The quality and quantity of natural resources available for human consumption (amongst other organisms) is mainly affected by what? - �... �✔Increasing human population What are some negative impacts of increasing per capita consumption? - ✔✔Decreased air and water quality due to pollution, changes in the atmosphere that have impacted the climate, changes in the topography due to resource extraction, and changes in the flow and movement of water How are natural resources categorized into renewable or nonrenewable? - ✔✔Based on the time it takes for them to be replenished naturally How long has planet Earth been existing for? - ✔✔About 4.6 billion years What does natural resources mean? - ✔✔Materials that are found on Earth naturally and used by people What does renewable resource mean? - ✔✔Materials, such as water, plants, or animals, that are replenished by natural processes What does nonrenewable resource mean? - ✔✔A material—such as petroleum, coal natural gas, and many minerals—that cannot be easily or quickly replaced by natural systems What does consumption mean? - ✔✔The purchase or use of something, including natural resources What does property mean? - ✔✔A characteristic that makes a material unique What does mining mean? - ✔✔The process of digging into Earth's surface to remove resourcesWhat does deposits mean? - ✔✔Areas containing significant amount of a resource What does fossil fuel mean? - ✔✔A fuel produced by living plant materials that have been buried by heat and pressure and layers within the earth over millions of years of time. Natural gas, petroleum, and coal are examples of fossil fuels What are the two categories that all forms of energy can be put into? - ✔✔Kinetic and potential energy How is oil formed? - ✔✔When dead plants or animals get buried by sand, silt, or rocks and get melted by heat for millions of years What are some products made from oil? - ✔✔Wax, Lubrication oils, tar, feedstocks, diesel fuel, gasoline, propane, plastics What is the best way to transport gas? - ✔✔From wells to gathering pipelines to gas processing plants, simplified answer: pipelines How is most coal transported? - ✔✔By train [Show More]

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