What is it?
Materials found in nature that humans use to survive and thrive.
What are natural resources?
A resource like wind or sunlight that can be replaced naturally.
What is a renewable resource?
The practice of planting trees to restore forests.
What is reforestation?
A United Nations program that protects the environment worldwide.
What is UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)?
A harmful substance in the air, water, or soil that can damage nature.
What is pollution?
The 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, and this one.
What is recycle?
A resource like coal or oil that cannot be replaced once it’s used up.
What is a non-renewable resource?
A method where waste is turned into reusable material.
What is recycling?
The local agency that oversees the forests in St. Vincent.
What is the Forestry Department?
Cutting down trees without replanting them.
What is deforestation?
This is why natural resources must be managed—for people today and future generations.
What is sustainability?
A resource that takes millions of years to form and cannot be reused.
What is a fossil fuel?
Reducing, reusing, and recycling is known as this 3-part strategy.
What is the 3Rs?
A group that monitors beaches, rivers, and parks in SVG.
What is the National Parks, Rivers and Beaches Authority (NPRBA)?
Two actions students can take to help manage natural resources.
What are recycling and planting trees?
If we overuse these types of resources, we might not have any left for the future.
What are non-renewable resources?
This resource shines every day and powers solar panels.
What is sunlight?
Large areas of land that are protected and cannot be destroyed by law.
What are national parks or conservation areas?
An international organization that fights to stop pollution and protect wildlife.
What is Greenpeace?
Two resources that can be replaced, and two that cannot.
What are wind and water (renewable), and oil and coal (non-renewable)?