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| Nonpoint Source Pollution |
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| Pollution that does not have a specific point of origin |
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| Pollution that comes from a known and specific location |
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| Gases that help maintain a warm temperature near Earth's surface |
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| eroded heavy minerals that settle from moving water |
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| Can be replenished over a short period of time |
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| takes millions of years to form |
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| Metallic mineral mined for a profit |
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| The careful use of resources |
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| Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas |
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| Non-polluting and cost effective but expensive equipment and the sun is not always out |
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| How does Nuclear Energy work? |
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| At a nuclear power, a nuclear chain reaction releases heat, which drives steam turbines that turn electrical generators. |
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| What are the dangers of Nuclear Energy? |
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| Cost of safe facitilites, dangers of a nuclear accident, and dangerous waste products. |
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| Needs large areas of land and more technical advances but could provide 5-10% of electricity in the future |
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| Falling water turns a turbine to produce electricity but there are limted suitable sites. |
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| hot water and steam below Earth's surface is used for heating and to turn turbines to generate electric power |
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| water turns a turbine but a dam is buit across the mouth of a bay |
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| requires industry to to reduce point source pollution |
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| set maximum contamaninant levels |
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| set quality standards for pollutants |
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| Resource Conservation and recovery act |
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| requires companies to store, tranport and dispose of hazardous waste according to strict guidelines |
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| fresh water is used to.... |
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| cook, drink, bathe, and grow food |
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| what are the four stages of the formation of coal? |
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| peat, lignite, bituminous, and anthracite |
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| help maintain a warm temperature near Earths surface |
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| soil, forests, minerals, and energy resources |
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| Oil shales and tar sands may replace what in the future? |
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| natural resource deposits in the US |
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| lead, coal, and petroleum |
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