VOCAB
Name two ways to save water at home.
What is taking a shorter shower, turning off water when brushing teeth, don’t leave water running when filling something up, using shower instead of bath tub, washing dishes in sinks full of water?
List 3 non-renewable natural resources
What are oil, petroleum, natural gas, minerals, ores?
Copper is a natural resource. Name two ways people use copper.
What are for plumbing, electrical wiring, and coins?
Name 2 causes of water pollution.
What is trash, oil spills, waste from factories?BONUS!
To protect natural resources, we all need to "conserve" them. What does this word mean?
What is keep safe or secure?
Most fossil fuels are formed in these areas.
What is the location of ancient oceans?
List three natural sources of energy that do not get used up like coal, gas and oil do.
What are water, wind, sun?
List two ways that reusing a metal lunchbox can help the environment.
What is fewer new things are made from natural resources and also less trash is made?
Some natural resources are considered non-renewable because
What is they take a very long time to form?
To calculate the amount of a resource used for each person in a given area.
What per capita consumption?
This is natural resource is the most important for human life.
What is water?
Sea animals, like this lobster, are harmed by changed to the water they life in. These changes can include increased temperatures, increased pH, and this specific form of pollution
What is plastic?
Despite the fact that the human population is increasing, the development of these could help reduce natural resource use
? BONUS!
Geological processes, like earthquakes, tectonic plate movement, etc are the cause of this?
What is natural resource distribution?
This diagram shows layers of rock with fossils within it. Which fossil in the strata is the youngest?
What are the fish fossils?
Even though the population in the US has held steady over the past 15 years or so, this has increased
What is per capita consumption?
An increase in human population may lead to more use of fossil fuels, less available groundwater in aquifers, and more of this
What is increased pollution?
The availability of future natural resources is based primarily on this
What is the decisions people make when it comes to using natural resources?
The Earth's history is broken into time periods called eras and periods. These begin and end based on this.
What are events of mass extinction or a dominance of a particular species?