Natural Resources- To renew, or not to renew
Energy from sources that can be reused
Renewable energy
Naturally occurring material that we can use
Natural Resources
energy resources formed from decomposed plants/animals
fossil fuels
The removal of vegetation causes the erosion of this important natural resource
Soil
Forests are considered to be what kind of natural resource?
renewable
The type of resource that when it's used up, that's it, it's gone.
Nonrenewable energy
One advantage and one disadvantage of solar
-inexhaustible & nonpolluting, origin of all energy, passive is free
-diffuse, intermittant
Which region has the largest oil reserves?
North Africa & Southwest Asia (the Middle East)
Because it takes centuries to naturally form 1" of soil, it is considered a...
nonrenewable resource
Covers 2% of the land surface on Earth but contains about half the terrestrial plants and animals.
rainforests
A resource that can be used up more quickly than it's replenished
exhaustible
Economic and technological conditions play a role in determining the availability of -
natural resources
This is a black rock that formed from decayed plants that were trapped underground millions of years ago.
Coal
Conversion of arid and semiarid lands into deserts
desertification
Brazil, Indonesia, and The Democratic Republic of Congo
countries with the largest amount of rainforest
True/False- A renewable resource cannot be exhaustible
false
What is the relationship between energy consumption and gross national income per capita?
higher incomes consume more energy
Economic base of wealth in industrialized countries
energy from fossil fuels
WILD CARD QUESTION!!! Which Muppet and Sesame Street character has appeared in two different power point slides this semester?
Kermit the Frog
Trees remove and store carbon in their trunks and roots- this is called?
carbon sequestration
Solar and wind are what form of natural resource? (hint- it's not renewable or non-renewable)
perpetual
Using natural resources at rates that are within their capacity for regeneration
sustainable
Costa Rica, Scotland, Iceland, Uruguay, New Zealand...
countries that don't use fossil fuels for most of their electricity generation
They filter pollutants from water, replenish aquifers, absorb floodwaters, stabilize shorelines, and provide habitat for many plants and animals
wetlands
100,000
acres of rainforests lost per day