Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

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What are the two categories for natural resources?

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Renewable and nonrenewable

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A resource that nature can replace

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Renewable

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Which of the following is a renewable resource? Coal, Petroleum, Solar Energy, Natural Gas

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Solar Energy

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Not made by humans

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Natural Sources

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Nonrenewable Resources

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Resources that cannot be replaced by natural processes within a lifetime (coal, oil, natural gas, rocks, and minerals)

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What are natural resources that cannot be replaced because they take millions of years to form called?

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Nonrenewable Resources

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What are resources that are replaced naturally and can be used again called?

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Renewable Resources

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Which of the following is an example of a nonrenewable resource? wind power, water behind dams, coal, sunlight

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coal

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Which of the following is an example of renewable resource? wind power, petroleum, coal, natural gas

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wind power

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a fossil fuel? petroleum, natural gas, water, coal

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water