ss Unit 8, Chapter 23, Lesson 3
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- Niagra Falls
- waterfalls on the boundary between the US and Canada; provides a portion of the nergy needs of the Canadian province of Ontario
- geothermal energy
- energy that is produced from super-hot, underground water
- Chernobyl
- site in Ukraine of a nuclear power plant accident in 1986
- hydroelectric energy
- electricity produced by using the energy of flowing water
- fossil fuel
- a fuel formed long ago deep in the earth from prehistoric plants and animals
- conservation
- the use of resources carefully and wisely
- Iguacu Falls
- a waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil; a major source of hydroelectricity in South America
- renewable resource
- a natural resource that can be replaced
- nonrenewable resource
- a resource that cannot be replaced
- George W. Bush
- 1946 - 43rd president of the US who began a campaign toward energy self-sufficiency and against terrorism in 2001
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- group formed in 1973 when many of the world's biggest oil producers joined together to cut petroleum production and raise oil prices