Natural resources
These are types of renewable resources
What are sunlight, water, wind, plants, and trees?
Harmful materials entering the environment and making air, water, or land dirty or unsafe.
What is pollution?
Burning this nonrenewable resource can release pollution into the air
What are fossil fuels?
Solar panels collect energy from this renewable resource.
What is sunlight?
This is one way you can save electricity when you leave a room
What is turning off the lights?
These are the two types of natural resources
What are renewable and nonrenewable resources?
This type of pollution happens when harmful smoke enters the air.
What is air pollution?
Powering cars and heating homes and some of the ways this nonrenewable resource is used
What are fossil fuels?
This machine uses wind to generate electricity?
What is a wind turbine?
Instead of throwing away some used items (for example, cardboard, paper), we can....
What is recycle?
These are types of nonrenewable resources
What are coal, oil, or natural gas?
Name one thing that can pollute rivers, lakes, or oceans.
What are chemicals, trash, oil spills, or wastewater?
This resource can provide wood, paper, and oxygen, but must be managed responsibly.
What are forests/trees?
This is a way that moving water at a dam helps produce electricity.
What is moving water turning turbines?
Name one way to use less water.
What is turning off the sink when not in use?
This resource takes millions of years to form.
What are nonrenewable resources?
These are ways that land pollution harms animals.
What is animals eat waste or become trapped in it?
Name two renewable resources that can be used to make electricity.
What are sunlight, wind or moving water?
Air pollution, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels, contributes to _______ change
What is climate?
This is how cleaner energy helps the environment.
What is reducing pollution?
This resource can be replaced quickly.
What are renewable resources?
These are the three types of pollution.
What are air, water, and land pollution?
Renewable resources can be replaced naturally in a short time; nonrenewable resources take a very long time to form and cannot be replaced quickly.
What is one difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?
This happens when wind turns a turbine's blades.
What is turning a generator to create electricity?
Two actions people can take to conserve resources and reduce pollution.
What are turning off lights, use less water, recycle, reduce waste, properly dispose of trash, or use renewable energy?