Social Studies
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- soft coal
- located underground of western Alleghen plateau
- non-renewable resources
- can not be replaced
- farms in PA
- truck, livestock, orchards, tree and mushrooms
- forests
- living resource
- examples of natural resources
- soils, air, forests, sun, animals, water, plants, waterforms, people
- main uses of waterforms are
- transport goods, privides drinks, creates electricity, recreation
- quarry
- a place where a huge pit or hole is made in the earth's surface
- hydro
- means water
- our state (PA)
- is the largest producer of fossil fuels in NE region
- fossil fules meet the needs in PA
- by heat, oil for cars and electricity
- renewable
- resource that can be replaced with time
- Lehigh River
- flows into the Delaware River in Easton, PA
- hard coal
- to heat homes and bulidings east Susquenna River
- extinct
- means "no longer living"
- Rivers meet at Pittsburg to form the Ohio River
- Allegheny and Monongahela
- ironore
- a metal ore used to make steel
- Raystown
- the largest human-made lake in PA
- clay
- a non-metallic mineral used to make bricks, sewer pipes and tiles
- hydroelectric
- electricity produced by the force of water falling over the dam
- oil and natural gas
- located northwest and in western Alleghenu plateau
- animals
- living resource
- fossil fulels provide
- 94% of our state's energy needs
- natural resources
- are something created by God and used by man
- glass
- a product made by heating a mixture of sand and limestone over gas or oil flame
- water
- nonliving resource
- slate
- stone used to make chalkboards, roof tiles, and pool tables
- three main waterforms in PA
- Delaware, Susquehanna, and Ohio
- Ground Water
- precipitaion that seeps into the earth
- Schuylkill River
- drains into the Delaware River in Philadelphia, PA
- Harrisburg is located
- along the Susquehanna River
- human
- living resource
- store water
- dam, reservoir and lakes
- Run off water
- is rain or melted snow that flows across the surface of the land until it reaches a body of water
- concrete
- product of limestone and stones harden when mixed with water
- sun
- nonliving resource
- soil
- nonliving resource
- tree farm
- a farm that grows Christmas trees
- water cycle
- evaporation, condendation in the clouds and precipitation to earth
- forests help by
- giving oxygen, homes to plants and animals, heating, making homes and furniture
- Delaware River
- forms a natural border beteen PA and NJ
- air
- nonliving resource
- cement
- a product of stone used to make concrete
- sand
- a non-metallic substance slowly made from waethering forces of ice, wind and water