Chapter 7 - Vocabulary (Lessons 1 and 2)

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part of the environment that supplies material useful or necessary for the survival of living things.

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Natural Resource

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fuel used for heating or to generate usable power.

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Energy Resource

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a resource that is used faster than it can be replaced by natural processes.

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Non-renewable resource

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a resource that can be replenished by natural processes at least as quickly as it is used.

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Renewable resource

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the careful use of Earth's materials to prevent or reduce damage to the environment and extend the lifetime of resources.

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Conservation

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the practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use.

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Technology

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the ability to do something or produce something without wasting materials, time, or energy.

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Efficiency

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A mixture of weathered rock, rock fragments, decayed organic matter, water, and air.

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Soil

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the mixture of invisible, odorless, tasteless gases that surrounds Earth.

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air

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a transparent, tasteless, odorless, colorless substance composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen.

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Water