Renewable Resources
•Is coal renewable or nonrenewable?
Nonrenewable
•Why is the water cycle important?
It recycles Earth's water
•What is weathering?
Breaking down of rock
Name one nonrenewable resource
Coal, oil, natural gas
•Act out evaporation.
Water rising as vapor
•Name two renewable resources.
wind, sunlight, water, trees etc...
•What is condensation?
Water vapor cooling into liquid
•What is erosion?
Movement of sediment
•What moves sediment?
Wind, water, ice, gravity
•Act out erosion.
Moving sediment
•What might happen if we overuse nonrenewable resources?
They could run out
•What causes evaporation?
Heat from the sun
•What is deposition?
Dropping of sediment
•Give one example of deposition.
Sandbar, delta, beach
•Act out deposition.
Dropping sediment
•Explain why trees are renewable but oil is not.
Trees regrow quickly; oil forms over millions of years
•What would happen without the sun in the water cycle?
Evaporation would not occur
•Ice cracking a rock is what?
Weathering
Which resource is replenished fastest: coal, wind, oil?
Wind
•Act out renewable resource.
Something that regrows
•Why are fossil fuels nonrenewable?
They take millions of years to form
Put these in the correct order! Condensation, Collection, Evaporation, Precipitation.
Evaporation → Condensation → Precipitation → Collection
•River forming a delta is an example of what?
Deposition
•What stage forms clouds?
Condensation
•Act out fossil fuel.
Energy from underground