Renewable v. Nonrenewable Resources
Define Renewable Resource
What is a natural resources that can be replaced after they are used.
Three big groups of rocks and an example for each
What is igneous (basalt), metamorphic (marble), and sedimentary (sandstone)?
Other answers are acceptable for examples
The outermost layer of the Earth
What is the Crust?
Concrete
What is a rocklike material that is made by people?
Define Non-Renewable Resource
What is a natural resource that eventually may not be able to be replaced after it is used
This type of rock forms form bits and pieces of recycled rocks
What is sedimentary?
The middle layer of the Earth?
What is the mantle?
Monument
What is a human built structure made of rocks that is designed to honor important people and events. They are usually large structures that are built to last a long time
Not all this information needs to be included in the response but most of it should
Two Examples of Natural Resources
- What is sun?
- What is water?
- What is trees?
- What is plants?
This type of rock needs heat/pressure to be formed
What is metamorphic?
Innermost layer of the Earth?
Core/Inner Core
Two uses of concrete
Answers include but are not limited to:
- What is highways?
- What is bridges?
- What is stadiums?
Two Examples of Non-Renewable Resources
Answers include but are not limited to:
- What is oil?
- What is coal?
- What is natural gas?
- What is nuclear power?
- Metal
This type of rock starts as magma
What is igneous?
The makeup of soil
What is humus, water, air, rocks (pebbles, gravel, sand, silt, and clay)?
Concrete is an old material that humans used to build objects - True or False
What is true?
Something you can do to help conserve our natural resources
Answers include but are not limited to:
- What is recycling?
- What is taking shorter showers?
- What is turn off the lights when you are don't need them?
The steps of the rock cycle (beginning with any step)
Magma, Cool Off, Igneous, Weather and Erode, Sediments, Deposit and Compact, Sedimentary, Heat and Pressure, Metamorphic - and the cycle repeats
Melted rock that is within the Earth
What is magma?
A fact that you leaned in science this unit
Answers will vary