Earth’s Resources
This resource is necessary for drinking and farming.
What is freshwater?
Growing plants and raising animals for food is called this.
What is agriculture?
Clearing forests and natural areas causes this.
What is destruction of habitats?
This renewable energy source comes from the sun.
What is solar energy?
The variety of life in an area.
What is biodiversity?
These resources can be regenerated through natural processes.
What are renewable resources?
Taking minerals and metals from the ground is called this.
What is mining?
Using resources faster than they can be replaced is called this.
What is depletion of resources?
Energy sources that can be replaced naturally are called this.
What are renewable energy resources?
When a species’ population decreases drastically but is not gone completely.
What is endangerment?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of these resources.
What are fossil fuels (nonrenewable resources)?
Turning wild animals into trained animals for human use is called this.
What is domestication?
Harmful substances released into air or water are called this.
What are pollutants?
The three R’s stand for these actions.
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
A harmful substance that can damage living and nonliving things.
What is a pollutant?
Plants provide this gas that humans need to survive.
What is oxygen?
Converting natural habitats into highly populated areas is called this.
What is urbanization?
When a species completely disappears, it is called this.
What is extinction?
Teaching people about protecting the environment helps increase this.
What is awareness?
Resources that can be replaced through natural processes.
What are renewable resources?
These resources are limited and once used up, they are gone forever.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Producing goods in large quantities from natural resources is called this.
What is manufacturing?
Reducing the variety of living things in an area affects this.
What is biodiversity?
This type of effort is needed from every person to solve environmental problems.
What is individual effort?
Resources that exist in limited amounts and cannot be replaced quickly.
What are nonrenewable resources?