Category 1
A useful source of material or energy that comes from nature
What are natural resources?
A liquid that formed millions of years ago from the burial of marine organisms; can be used as a source of energy
What is petroleum?
A natural resource that is used up faster than it is replenished, or exists in a limited supply
What is a nonrenewable resource?
The use of natural resources in a way that ensures their availability to future generations of humans
What is sustainable?
True or False: The actions of humans are NOT changing the distribution of the world’s fresh water supplies.
False.
A natural resource that is replenished faster than it is used up, or exists in such great supply that it cannot be depleted
What is a renewable resource?
A mixture of rock and mineral particles, living and once-living matter, water, and air
What is soil?
Energy from Earth’s hot interior
What is geothermal energy?
Humans extract petroleum from oil fields by doing this.
What is drilling?
Is most of Earth's groundwater a renewable or nonrenewable resource?
Nonrenewable resource.
Is freshwater that exists as surface water a renewable or nonrenewable resource?
Renewable Resource
True or False: Petroleum is considered a renewable resource.
False
True or False:
The properties of a rock influence how much groundwater can be stored there, and how quickly it can be replenished.
True.
True or False:
One cause of the uneven distribution of groundwater is differences in the amount of rain or snow various regions receive.
True.
True or False: The use of petroleum is sustainable?
False. It is not sustainable.
Name 3 ways humans user surface and groundwater.
In industry to produce energy
To make products, such as clothes and paper
Drinking
Bathing
Washing clothes
The type of water that makes up 3% of Earth's water.
What is fresh water?
Name a reason the use of petroleum is not sustainable.
It causes environmental damage and health problems in humans.
Name 2 of 4 things the amount of freshwater available as a renewable natural resource depends on.
Rain
Evaporation
Infiltration
Usage by people
Which gas is released when petroleum is burned?
A. Oxygen
B. Hydrogen
C. Carbon dioxide
C. Carbon Dioxide
Scientists are exploring the history of 2 countries in Africa. They found evidence that Country B was once surrounded by shallow seas filled with marine organisms. The other, Country A, was very dry and inhabited by mainly camels and cacti. Which country would you expect scientists to find oil fields in? Explain your answer.
Country B because it was surrounded by shallow seas filled with marine organisms.
Which of these 3 events happens first when petroleum is forming?
A. Over millions of years dead marine organisms bodies build up in layers.
B. The increase of temperature and pressure causes a chemical change in the remains of marine organisms.
C. Marine organisms die.
C. Marine organisms die.
Put the following events in the formation of petroleum in the order they happen.
A. There is an increase in temperature.
B. Dead marine organisms bodies settle to the seafloor.
C. Dead marine organisms bodies become petroleum.
B, A, C
Why is petroleum a nonrenewable resource?
Petroleum is a nonrenewable resource because it forms so slowly that it cannot be replenished faster than it is being used.
True or False: 69% of Earth's freshwater is frozen in glaciers.
True