Natural Resources
Managing Resources
Human impact on the atmosphere
Human impact on water
Human Impact on Land
100
Natural occurring resources used by humans
What are natural resources


100
The careful and responsible management of resources
What is stewardship?
100
The way certain gases in the atmosphere absorbed and radiated thermal energy
What is the green house effect?
100
When waste or other materials are added to water so its careful for any organism that drinks it or lives in it.
What is water pollution?
100
The growth of urban areas caused by people moving into cities.
What is urbanization?
200
A natural resource that is being created as fast as it it used
What is a renewable resource?
200
The protection of natural resources
What is conservation?
200
The contamination of the atmosphere caused by humans
What is air pollution?
200
Comes from one specific point
What is point-source pollution?
200
 living thing that breaks down dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
300
A resource that is produced slower than it is consumed
what is a nonrenewable resource?
300
A non renewable resource
What is coal
300
A tiny particle of solid suspended in air or water
What is Particulate?
300
Comes from many small sources and is difficult and hard to control
What Non-point source pollution?
300
The process in which human activity harms land
What is Land degration?
400
A nonrenewable resource created from the buried remains of dead plants and animals
What are fossil fuels?
400
A renewable resource
What is water?
400
When ground level vehicle exhaust reacts to the presence of sunlight
What is smog?
400
The heating of natural water from human activities
What is thermal pollution?
400
When land becomes desert like
What is desertification? 
500

Natural resources that are used to create food, drinks, and objects

What are material resources?

500
Another renewable resource
What is fish
500
rain that contains acid from air pollution
Acid precipitation
500
The increase in the amount of nutrients in water
What is europhication?
500
The removal of vegetation from another area
What is deforestation?
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