Chapter 10
Natural Resources
Conservation
Renewable/Nonrenewable
Pollution
100
What are the 3 R's?
Reduce, reuse and, recycle.
100
Name 3 things you can recycle.
glass, paper, and metals.
100
What is the act of preserving or protecting natural resources?
Conservation
100
What is a resource that CANNOT be replaced in a lifetime?
Nonrenewable
100
What is a change in the environment that is harmful to living things?
Pollution
200
What type of soil conservation method is best for areas with lots of wind?
Wind breaks
200
Giving another person your outgrown clothes and using a milk carton as a bird feeder are examples of what?
Reusing
200
Windbreaks contour plowing, and strip cropping are examples of what?
Soil conservation
200
What is a resource that CAN be replaced in a lifetime?
Renewable resource
200
Factories and burning fossil fuels are examples of what?
Air pollution
300
What type of water conservation method involves planting native grasses or plants that don't need much water?
Xeriscaping
300
Name 2 examples of reducing.
Using less water and using less electricity.
300
Drip irrigation and Xeriscaping are examples of what?
Water conservation
300
Name 5 nonrenewable resources?
Coal, oil, minerals, soil, and old growth trees
300
Name 4 examples of water pollution.
Poisons, sewage, chemicals, fertilizers
400
Taking your old glass bottles to a factory where they are made into new glass bottles is an example of which of the 3 R's?
Recycling
400
Name 2 things you can do to conserve natural resources?
Take shorter showers and collect rain for plants.
400
Taking shorter showers and not leaving faucets running are all examples of what?
Water conservation
400
Name the 2 renewable resources that we drink and breath.
Water and air
400
What is acid rain caused by?
Air pollution
500
Using the same glass cup all throughout the day is an example of which of the 3 R's?
Reusing
500
Picking up trash is a way to help stop what type of pollution?
Land pollution
500
Terracing, crop rotation, and intercropping are examples of what?
Soil conservation
500
Name the 2 renewable resources that we eat and plant.
animals and fast growing trees.
500
Name 2 examples of land pollution.
Garbage, poisons seeping into the land
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