Natural Resources
What is a natural resource?
What is something useful to humans that is found in nature?
What natural resource do most cars use for fuel?
What is petroleum?
Name 3 arboreal animals affected by deforestation.
What are monkeys, sloths, and toucans?
How can we build furniture and homes sustainably?
What is:
- use sustainable materials like bamboo
- build around existing trees
- use driftwood or reclaimed wood?
What is deforestation?
What is clearing trees to make space for buildings or roads?
What is the natural resource used to make paper?
What percent of Earth's water is fresh water?
What is 3%?
What is poaching?
What is illegally harming or killing animals by hunting?
How does deforestation contribute to global warming?
What is it releases CO2 and cuts off sources of oxygen?
Name 3 negative effects of littering.
What are spreading disease, contaminating bodies of water, and killing animals?
Give 3 examples of renewable resources.
What are desalination plants?
What is technology that removes salt and other impurities from salt water to make it fresh water?
Why are sharks hunted for their fins?
Bonus: Why do sharks die without their fins?
What is to be cooked in a popular Chinese soup?
Bonus: What is sharks are unable to swim without their fins?What are reduction in air quality, water contamination, and increase in respiratory illnesses?
Fact: Costa Rica is first in the world for the use of pesticides. Costa Rica uses, on average, 18.2 kg of pesticides per hectare of cropland.What are some of the leading causes of deforestation?
1) Industrialization
2) Cattle ranching
3) Palm oil plantations?
Give 3 examples of nonrenewable resources.
What are rocks, minerals, and fossil fuels?
What technology do people in dry places use to grow crops?
What are irrigation systems?
How many rhinoceros are left in the wild?
What is approximately 27,000?
How does agricultural monocropping contribute to soil erosion?
What is it depletes vital nutrients from the soil?
Name 3 places and animals being affected by deforestation.
1) sloths - Costa Rica
2) blue macaws - Brazil
3) orangutans - Borneo?
(Other examples will be accepted.)What is the water cycle?
What is the continuous movement of water from the earth to the sky and back to the earth?
What are biofuel, solar energy, and electricity?
How are turtles and sharks affected by trawl net fishing?
What is they are often caught in the nets and suffocated?
How does deforestation affect aquatic life?
What is it introduces sediments to bodies of water that prevent plants from receiving sunlight and photosynthesizing?
What does CFCs stand for?
What is chlorofluorocarbons?