SME
Grade 12 Science · Earth & Space Science
Human impacts, resource management and engineering solutions
Sort energy sources into renewable and nonrenewable: which ones people can use up.
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Can people use it up?
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Renewable resources are replaced by nature within a human lifetime.
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Fossil fuels took millions of years to form.
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