PA Terms
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- wetlands
- lowland area, such as a marshy or swampy place, that holds moisture
- anthracite
- hard coal
- loam
- A brown soil made up of sand, silt, clay, and organic matter.
- mouth
- part of a river where its water empties into another body of water
- headwaters
- the source of a stream
- fossil fuels
- resources formed millions of years ago from remians of plants and animals under the earth's crust
- mineral resource
- any useful substance found in the earth that has NOT been formed by plant and animal remains
- source
- the beginning of a stream of water
- reservoir
- an artificial lake where water is stored and collected for a water supply
- non-renewable
- something that cannot be extended, renewed, or replaced
- natural gas
- gas coming from the earth's crust through natural openings or bored wells
- tributary
- a smaller stream flowing into a larger stream, river, or lake
- watershed
- a geographic area or region into which all the creeks and tributaries flow into a larger river
- natural resource
- Raw materials that exist in a natural state and are used to produce products, or finished goods.
- petroleum
- any oily flammable liquid obtained from wells drilled in the ground and refined into gasoline and fuel oils
- bituminous
- soft coal
- forest
- a large growth of trees and underbrush