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Unit 3: Managing Earth resources
Quick questions on Renewable and non-renewable resource formation: WACE Year 12 Earth and Environmental Science
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What is classifying resources by rate of replenishment?Show answer
A non-renewable resource forms so slowly, over millions of years, that it cannot be replaced within a human lifetime. Once extracted it is depleted. A renewable resource is replenished by continuing natural processes on a timescale of days to decades, so it can be used indefinitely if extraction does not exceed the replenishment rate.
What are formation of mineral resources?Show answer
Metallic mineral deposits form where geological processes concentrate metals.
What are formation of fossil fuel resources?Show answer
Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy resources formed from the buried remains of organisms.
What are formation of renewable energy resources?Show answer
Renewable resources are driven by continuous external and internal energy flows.
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