Earth's Resources 5-8

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Groundwater is evenly distributed around the world

Metals such as silver, copper, and zinc are found near ...

Water cannot pass through ...

Petroleum forms from the remains of dead sea plant and animals that sank to the seafloor.

Which of the following can cause weathering of rocks

Which of the following is a fossil fuel

A rock that contains economically valuable concentrations of a metal or other minerals.

Underground area of rock that contain large amounts of trapped water are called aquifers

Which color represents where we would most likely find metal ores like copper

Which of the following can result from plates moving

Minerals can be found near volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain ranges

What valuable resource did we extract from malachite

Processes such as earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, and weathering, that form and shape Earth's surface

Aquitards allow water to pass through

Fossil fuels like petroleum are found near ...

The best place to extract groundwater is the lowest point of a porous material and above a nonporous material

Fossils can form in sedimentary rocks

Fossil fuels are formed in a short period of time

Water found below earth's surface in cracks and spaces of earth's materials is known as groundwater

The movement of plates is called plate tectonics

Small pieces of earth materials such as dirt, sand, and shells

Where would we find petroleum deposits?

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Sediments can settle on top of each other, form layers, and eventually harden together.

Digging a large hole in the ground because a resource is close to the surface or is under unstable layers of earth.

Any representation of a system or its parts that is used to help someone understand and communicate how the system works

Dense materials such as diamonds and gold are found near ...

Technology that provides information about an object without directly seeing the object

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Earth's lithosphere is broken into large sections called plates

What is a positive impact made by humans to help reduce the impact of resource consumption on the Earth?