Definitions
These are natural resources that will renew or replenish themselves when used responsibly.
Renewable resources
This is the name for when we extract non-renewable resources from the earth like sand, gravel and, limestone
Quarrying
When we do things like prevent forest fires, control deforestation, have a programme of reforestation and regulate quarrying, what are we doing?
Actions or things to protect/sustain our vegetation
This is what we call non-living resources that cannot replenish themselves when used OR natural resources that will run out at some point in the future.
Non-renewable resources
Providing sites for building, areas for growing crops, natural sites for beaches and rivers and giving us materials like sand and gravel are what?
Opportunities that landforms and the land surface provide.
This is the constant movement of water above, along, and below the Earth’s surface
The Water Cycle
This is the responsible management of natural resources so that they can meet our needs today, as well as the needs of future generations.
Sustainable development
This thing does all the following for us- provide medicine, bring rain, provide oxygen, provide wind protection, reduce global warming.
Forests
Turning off taps when not in use and fixing leaking pipes is a way to do what.
An important way to help sustain our supplies of fresh water.
This is the way gases such as carbon dioxide trap the sun’s heat in the atmosphere rather like glass in a greenhouse causing global warming and climate change.
Greenhouse effect
This very important resource does this for us- help all living things grow and reproduce, helps plants and animals grow and survive and is the ocean's life.
Water
Protecting our wetlands because they provide food and shelter to fish and aquatic plant life is a way to do what.
An important way to help sustain our supplies of fresh water.
These are natural resources made from dead plants and animals which are drilled, quarried and mined from beneath the earth’s e.g. oil and natural gas.
Fossil Fuels
These are two examples of fossil fuels found in Trinidad and Tobago.
Petroleum and natural gas
Agricultural waste water which is run off from agricultural land that contains sediments, fertilisers, manures and pesticides contribute to what?
Water pollution