Types of Natural Resources
Any natural material used by humans
What is a natural resource?
Cause the prices of the resource go up
What is a decrease in resources?
When materials can be used again to make new things
What is recycling?
Something that is required to SURVIVE.
What is a need?
A natural resource that can be a want.
What is a (lot of things)?
A resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which it is consumed
What is a renewable resource?
Something populations do when unemployment increases.
What is migration to new settlements?
An example of this management method is using metal water bottles to avoid using plastic water bottles.
What is reducing?
A freshwater resource
What is a (river, pond, lake, stream, etc)?
Natural resources that are used to make products we buy and can be renewable or non-renewable
What are material resources?
This is what happens to non-renewable resources when populations climb.
What is a decrease in non-renewable resources?
An example of this management method is using old tire pieces in our football field.
What is reusing?
The conservation effort to save trees.
Formed in the Earth's crust
What is (iron, coal, gold, copper, etc)?
Two examples of non-renewable resources are...
What are __ and __.
The most used non-renewable resource in the US in 2021.
What is petroleum?
The most used renewable resource in the US in 2021.
What is wind energy?
The conservation effort that ensures ocean animals have enough fish to eat.
What is reducing overfishing and hunting?
Geothermal energy is an example of what type of resource?
What is ___ and ___.
Explain what happens to populations and the availability of resources when natural resources decrease.
Prices go up-->costs more to make products and producing less product--> no more work for the same number of employees--> some people get fired--> they migrate to find work
Give me a new example of reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Reduce: sippable lids instead of straws. Reuse: Use plastic grocery bags to line trash cans. Recycle: Glass bottles
Something cities can do to help during a drought
What is harvesting water in dams?
Name an energy source that is non-renewable
What is Nuclear energy?