1. Natural Resources 5.11C Earth Picture Vocabulary

2. Natural Resources Earth materials that are useful and important to humans

3. Renewable Resource Resources that nature can provide again and again in a relatively short period of time

4. Nonrenewable Resource Resources that nature cannot replace quick enough to meet people’s needs

5. Inexhaustible Resource Resources that are never used up as they are being used

6. Fossil Fuels Fuels formed millions of years ago from the remains of dead plants and animals, including coal, oil, and natural gas

7. Hydropower The capture of energy from moving water for a useful purpose; an alternative energy source

8. Solar Energy The process of obtaining useful energy from the sun via solar panels

9. Windmill An engine powered by the wind designed to produce energy from an inexhaustible source