Natural Resources
This is a resource that comes from the Earth and can be used to make energy, like oil, natural gas, and coal.
What are fossil fuels?
The amount of this is released into the air when we use energy from burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
This type of change occurs when the appearance of a substance changes, but its chemical makeup stays the same, like cutting a piece of paper.
What is a physical change?
This type of energy comes from the Sun and helps plants make food through photosynthesis.
What is solar energy?
This type of organism makes its own food using sunlight, like plants and algae.
What is a producer?
This is the process of cutting down trees to use for wood, paper, and other products.
What is deforestation?
This is one way to reduce your carbon footprint by walking, biking, or using public transportation instead of driving a car.
What is using less gas?
This is a type of change that occurs when a substance becomes a new substance, like when baking soda reacts with vinegar to make bubbles.
What is a chemical change?
This is the energy that is stored in objects because of their position, like a rock sitting on top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
These organisms depend on other living things for food, like animals that eat plants or other animals.
What is a consumer?
This type of resource is something that can be replaced naturally over time, like trees or water.
What are renewable resources?
This activity, like using electricity from renewable sources or reducing waste, can help lower your carbon footprint.
What is energy conservation?
This is the process of water changing from a liquid to a gas, like when it boils.
What is evaporation?
This energy is what makes things move, like when you roll a ball across the ground.
What is kinetic energy?
This is a natural home where biotic and abiotic factors are.
What is an ecosystem?
This is a renewable resource we get from the Sun and use for generating electricity.
What is solar energy?
This is the greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels that contributes to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
When a metal reacts with oxygen and forms a brownish color on its surface, this is an example of this kind of change.
What is a chemical reaction?
This type of energy is released when fuels like coal, gas, or oil are burned.
What is thermal energy?
These are the non-living parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
This type of resource can take millions of years to form, and once it is used up, it cannot be replaced for a very long time.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This is one of the best ways to help the planet by reducing waste and reusing items instead of throwing them away.
What is recycling?
This happens when you mix two liquids together and a solid forms that wasn't there before. (Hint- It was forms in the clouds)
What is precipitation?
This is the energy found in food that animals and humans use to grow and perform activities.
What is chemical energy?
This process involves plants taking in carbon dioxide from the air and giving off oxygen, which animals need to breathe.
Photosyntheisis