Vocabulary
What is a natural resource?
Something that comes from the earth and is made into something useful for humans.
What is one danger this resource is facing? (FOREST)
Killing wildlife homes. Answers may vary
Resouces that are typically limited and nonrenewable.
Limited resources
Soil
Renewable
What's the difference between renewable & nonrenewable resources?
A renewable resource can be renewed, and a nonrenewable resource cannot be renewed.
Minerals containing metals
Metal Ores
Primary source of energy. Answers may vary.
The capacity to do work
Energy
Forests
Renewable - unless we damage them too much
In the lab, what did beans represent and what did the people represent?
Beans represented natural resources and people represented populations.
Heat and Light energy that is derived from the sun
Solar energy
One MAJOR danger we are facing with fresh water
Drought
A liquid mixture that includes gasoline and deisel oil.
Petroleum oil.
A natural resource that due to human actions can no longer rejuvenate itself is called....
a no longer renewable resource
A natural resource that once we use is essentailly gone, because it takes so long for it to rejuvenate itself. (ex. fossil fuels)
non-renewable resource
Wind can be used as a source of energy, what tool is used to harvest the wind and make it into electricity?
A windmill
Uneven distribution of Earth's mineral energy and groundwater resources.
Uneven distribution
Name at least three natural resources needed to make an apple pie.
Apples, Sugar, Wheat,& Anything else your group agrees to will work too.
A loose material from weathering of rocks and contains various organic substances?
Soil
One major danger we face with Ocean
Plastic waste ends up in our oceans.
We depend on what things for different resources? List 2
Land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere
What marked an increase in the world's population?
Industrial Revolution