Renewable Resources
This renewable resource comes from forests and is used to make furniture and paper.
What are trees (wood)?
This fossil fuel is often used to generate electricity and forms from ancient plants.
What is coal?
Bread comes from this renewable resource.
What is wheat?
A notebook is made from this renewable resource.
What is trees?
What is the difference between a renewable and non-renewable resource?
Renewable resources can be replaced naturally in a short time; non-renewable resources take millions of years to form or cannot be replaced.
This renewable resource is used to make sweaters.
What is wool?
This resource is refined into gasoline and plastic products.
What is oil (petroleum)?
Tires are made from this resource that comes from trees.
What is rubber?
This non-renewable resource helps make plastic water bottles.
What is petroleum (oil)?
Name two renewable resources used to produce electricity.
What are wind, water (hydropower), solar energy, geothermal energy, or fossil fuel?
This renewable resource comes from cotton plants and is used to make clothing.
What is cotton?
This resource is commonly used to heat homes and cook food.
What is natural gas?
Glass bottles are made from this mined resource.
What is sand?
Corn chips are made from this renewable resource.
What is corn?
Why are oil, coal, and natural gas called fossil fuels?
They formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
This renewable resource is produced by moving air.
What is wind energy?
This metal is mined from bauxite ore and used to make pop cans.
What is aluminum?
Electrical wires are commonly made from this metal ore.
What is copper?
A solar calculator uses energy from this renewable resource.
What is sunlight (solar energy)?
This renewable resource can become non-renewable if people use it faster than it can be replaced.
What are trees?
This renewable resource uses the heat found inside the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
This resource is used in nuclear power plants.
What is uranium?
Leather shoes and belts come from this renewable resource.
What is cattle?
Trucks and buses often use fuel made from this non-renewable resource.
What is diesel fuel?
Name three everyday products that come from non-renewable resources.
Examples: plastic bottles, pop cans, glass bottles, electrical wires, gasoline, steel tools.