NATURAL RESOURCES
“______ are those things found in nature, such as forests, mineral deposits, soil, and fresh water, that have economic value.”
What are natural resources?
“___________ manage, improve, and protect natural resources.”
What are conservation scientists?
“________ are all the interactions between climate, the solid earth, water, and the living things on Earth.”
What are environmental systems?
“One way to classify natural resources is by their __________.”
How can natural resources be classified by their source of origin?
“The wise use of our natural resources is called _________.”
What is conservation?
“ types of natural resources.”
What are air and wind, fossil fuels, minerals, people, soil, sunlight, water, and wildlife?
“_________study the chemical and physical characteristics of the earth’s crust and the thin layer of soil upon it.”
What are soil scientists?
“_________ is the average weather conditions in a region over a period of years.”
What is climate?
“Natural resources of _________ origin come from the biosphere.”
What are biotic natural resources?
“The choice not to use our natural resources is called __________.”
What is preservation?
“_____ is the outer layer of the earth’s surface that supports life.”
What is soil?
“____________, develop, use, and help protect forests, livestock forage, minerals, and water.”
Who are foresters and range managers?
" ________is the gaseous layer that encompasses the earth.”
What is the atmosphere?
“__________ natural resources are resources that come from nonliving, nonorganic materials.”
What are abiotic natural resources?
“__________ is the use of natural resources for profit.”
What is exploitation?
“_______ is the source of almost all the energy used on the earth.”
What is sunlight?
“___________ sustain healthy populations of fish and wildlife.”
Who are wildlife managers, fisheries biologists, and wildlife biologists?
_________s all the water on Earth, whether liquid, solid, salty, or fresh.”
What is the hydrosphere?
“_________ natural resources are resources replaced naturally.”
What are renewable natural resources?
“It wasn’t until the late 1800s that people began to see the need for __________ of our natural resources.”
When did people begin to see the need for conservation of natural resources?
“All the plants and animals that live in the wild are called ________.”
What is wildlife?
“Park __________ plan, develop, and conduct programs to educate park visitors about national, state, or local parks.”
Who are park naturalists?
“All the communities of living things on Earth compose the ________.”
What is the biosphere?
“___________ natural resources are resources that cannot be replaced after use.”
What are nonrenewable natural resources?
____________ is the over harvesting of a natural resource to a point of diminishing returns.”
What is overexploitation?