Mineral Resources
A solid substance found naturally in the earth's surface.
What is a mineral?
While crops are planting, planting other things between rows can be done to prevent erosion between crop rows.
What is ground cover?
Forms when sea water freezes
Sea ice
The 3 R's of conservation
What is reduce, reuse and recycle?
Water returns to the sky from the ocean through these two processes.
What is transpiration and evaporation?
What is a vein?
Helps increase the amount of crops produced by not planting for a year or more to allow the field to naturally recover.
What is it mean when a field lies fallow?
Floating ice sheet
Ice Shelf
Use a less amount of something, like turning off water when brushing teeth.
Oceans provide this to man through the water cycle
What is freshwater?
The most abundant metal in the earth's crust.
What is aluminum?
Plowing and planting in a field following the curves of the ground to help reduce erosion.
What is contour plowing?
Water stored beneath the surface of the earth.
What is ground water?
To use an item over again, like when you use a grocery sack/plastic bag to carry your gym clothes in for school.
Oceans provide this to man through the process of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
What is malleable?
All of Earth's water
What is the hydrosphere?
Taking an object and remanufacturing it into something new, like plastics or paper.
What is recycle?
What is climate?
Area of sand, gravel or bedrock that holds and moves ground water.
What is an aquifer?