AP Environmental Science / Unit 6: Energy Resources and Consumption
6.1 Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
Notes
- Nonrenewable: form far slower than we use them (coal, oil, natural gas, uranium).
- Renewable: replenished naturally (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal). Biomass is renewable only if not overused.
Practice
Which is nonrenewable?
Takes millions of years to form.
Wood is renewable as long as:
Depletable renewable.
Uranium for nuclear power is:
A mined mineral.
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