Chapter 18 : Lesson 3 Global Problems and Economic Incentives

Essential Question: Why is it important to conserve nonrenewable resources?

Subsistence : state in which a society produces barely enough to support itself

Renewable Resource : natural resource that can be replenished for future use

Renewable Resource : natural resource that can be replenished for future use

Nonrenewable Resource : resources that cannot be replenished once they are used

Biomass : energy made from wood, peat, municipal solid waste, straw, corn, tires, landfill gases, fish oils, and other waste

Gasohol : mixture of 90 percent unleaded gasoline and 10 percent grain alcohol

Glut: substantial oversupply of a product

Pollution Permits: federal permit allowing a public utility to release pollutants into the air; a form of pollution control

Review Question: Chapter 18 : Lesson 3 Read pages 540-549 and answer Review Questions on page 549. Hand in Google Class Room.