Earth's Resources

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This is the process of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine.

These are natural, inorganic substances that are important parts of all matter.

Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.

Which of the following are fossil fuels?

These are a mixture of minerals of which there are three main kinds: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.

This process involves the clearing of trees and the transforming of a forest into cleared land.

A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms like dinosaurs.

A substance of economic value that can be replaced or replenished in the same amount or less time as it takes to use up the supply.