Natural Resources
What is a natural resource?
Any material from Earth that is used by people.
What is a renewable resource?
A natural resource that can be replaced as quickly as people use it.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
A resource that is used much faster than it can be replaced.
What are fossil fuels made of?
Fossil remains of plants and tiny animals.
What energy is used from water turbines
Hydroelectric or HydroWater energy
How are natural resources grouped?
Natural resources are grouped based on how fast they can be replaced.
List two examples of renewable energy sources.
Possible answers: wood, sun, water, wind.
List two examples of nonrenewable energy sources.
Possible answers: oil, natural gas, coal, fossil fuels.
What is a hydrocarbon?
A compound that contains the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
Geothermal
What are the two groups of natural resources?
Renewable and nonrenewable.
What is one renewable resource that can be recycled into another?
Possible answers: Newspaper, aluminum cans, some plastic containers, and many types of paper can be recycled.
How do renewable resources become nonrenewable?
If people use them quicker than they can be replaced.
Humans used this to transport themselves across oceans and seas.
Boats and WIND (renewable resource)
Name some advantages from using Natural Gasses...
List 3 natural resources.
Possible answers: Wind, soil, fresh water, petroleum, rocks, minerals, forests, solar and wildlife.
What does "conserve" mean?
Sustainable use of resources to protect them and their ability to be renewed.
What is the main disadvantage of coal, natural gas, biomass?
They all release carbon dioxide
What can burn cleaner than charcoal
Energy from Biofuels
What is a disadvantage from using solar power?
The sun is not always present. Cloudy or rainy days.
What is recycling? (BE SPECIFIC.)
Recycling means using things that have been thrown away to make new objects.
What is an advantage of using Wind Turbines?
They do not require sunlight nor do they produce any bad air.
Why are coal, oil, and natural gas considered nonrenewable resources, even though they come from living things that can reproduce?
They take millions of years to form.
A renewable resource that will never run out because it is instantly replenished is...
Perpetual resource
What energy can we use that produces only water vapor?
Hydrogen Gas