Depletion of Resources

A natural Resource supplies material useful or necessary for   the survival of living things.

It is a deposit of minerals that is large enough to be mined for a profit.

It is a resource that can be replenished by natural processes at least as quickly as it is used.

It’s a resource that is used faster than it can be replaced by natural processes.

The area where one plate slides under another plate.

 It is a mixture of weathered rock, rock fragments, decayed organic matter, water, and air.

It is the measure of a rock’s ability to hold water.

It is the measure of the ability of water to flow through rock and sediment.

The process by which commercially valuable resources are removed from Earth.

It occurs when groundwater is withdrawn from aquifers faster than natural recharge can replace it.

How does mining affect mineral distribution?

Coal can be mined much like minerals.

Which statement is true?

What is aquifer?