Vocabulary
Resources that can be replaced easily
What are renewable resources?
Things that are useful to people and come from the earth.
What are natural resources?
This renewable resource absorb pollutants through their leaves, like all green plants, they also produce oxygen and provide shade for us.
What are trees?
This resource is mined from the earth and used for heating, fuel, electricity and much more. Hint: it is black!
What is coal?
To protect the Earth we must do this.
What is recycle, reduce, reuse?
Resources that cannot be easily replaced
What are nonrenewable resources?
This natural resource gives off heat and lights up our world.
What is the sun?
This renewable resource comes from trees and is used for building, among other useful purposes.
What is lumber?
This resource is used for heating, cooling, refrigeration, ovens and stoves and much more. Hint: it has a flame.
What is Natural Gas?
Two of the worst problems that the Earth is facing are these.
What is pollution and resource loss?
To use a material and make it into something else
What is recycle?
We cannot live without this natural resource, an adult body is made up of 60% of this.
What is water?
This renewable resource begins from a cow or pig and through a process becomes something else. The item protects your feet as the finished product.
What are leather shoes?
This item is a black, smooth liquid that is used in vehicles, boats, trains and can be used for heating.
What is oil?
Air, water, land and living things make up this area where we live.
What is the environment?
To use less of something
What is reduce?
This natural resource is a major factor in determining weather and climate. It carries heat, moisture, pollutants, and pollen to new areas and also carries seeds through the air.
What is wind?
This renewable resource starts with a sheep, it is something you wear on your body to keep warm. (Hint: it has sleeves and a neck hole)
What is a wool sweater
This item is made from aluminum and has a soft drink in it.
What is a soda (pop) can?
People use these all of the time.
What are natural resources?
to use something over again
What is reuse?
This natural resource is black, it is mined from the earth, It is made from organic materials and it is used for heating.
What is coal?
An item used to write or draw on that is make from trees.
What is paper?
This is a recyclable item that contains water, juice, or soda in a bottle.
What is plastic?
This is full of minerals, oil and metals.
What is the Earth's soil?