Natural Resources
Parts of the environment that supply materials useful or necessary for the survival of living things
What are natural resources
This natural resource will not run out, no matter how much of it people use.
What is an inexhaustible resource?
This is the contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life. This can be a result of human interaction or natural causes.
What is pollution?
These are ways you can save water.
What are fossil fuels
Explain how an inexhaustible resource can also be a renewable resource.
Inexhaustible resources will never run out and therefore will be renewed as quickly as they are used.
This layer of the atmosphere is helpful in preventing UV rays, but only in the upper atmosphere. In the lower atmosphere it is harmful to our health.
What is ozone?
What is biodiesel?
Natural resources that can be replenished by natural processes at least as quickly as they are used.
What are renewable resources?
This renewable resource is used to run power plants and factories, as well as irrigating crops.
What is a water resource?
Scientists have observed the Earth's average surface temperature has increased due to these gases.
What are greenhouse gases?
New automobile technologies help decrease the amount of pollution by increasing this.
What is miles per gallon?
Nnon-living substances in Earth's crust useful for plant growth and good health, made up of pure substances which are naturally sourced.
What are minerals?
This form of renewable resource includes wildlife, ecosystems, forest, grasslands, and soil.
What are land resources?
A form of water pollution that happens when rain flows out of roads and farmland.
What is runoff?
When we meet human needs in ways that ensure future generations also will be able to meet their needs.
What is sustainability?
Natural resources that are being used up faster than they can be replaced by natural processes.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Explain why deforestation can be a source of air pollution.
Trees produce oxygen, which is breathed by humans. Less trees = less oxygen. Also, respiration, decay, and burning fossil fuels all produce CO2 which is then used by plants for photosynthesis.
This type of land pollution can release toxic substances that was buried in rock and damage ecosystems.
What is Mining?
What are Restore, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?