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Things, materials, substances and components found in the natural environment.
What are Natural Resources?
Resources that CANNOT be regenerated or replenished by natural processes.
What are Nonrenewable Resources?
Bug walking on water
What is surface tension?
Found where ancient swamps used to be
What is Coal?
The quality of life of people in a country and the _____ of a country depend on what resources a country has and what the country does with them.
What are Wealth?
Moves carbon from one place to another
What is a process?
Resources that can regenerate if they are alive or can be replenished by biochemical cycles if they are nonliving.
What are Renewable Resources?
Water moving through tree's roots
capillary action
Formed from the remains of marine organisms
What is oil?
If a country does not have certain natural resources, the country can ______ with other countries that have those resources in order to obtain what it wants or needs.
What is Trade?
As population increases our access to resources _______.
What is decrease?
What are 2 examples of a renewable resource
Water, sunlight, plants, animals, and wind.
rain drop
What is cohesion?
Found near oil reserves
What is natural gas?
Countries sometimes ______ with each other over control of resource-rich regions.
What is Fight? or What is Conflict & War?
Contributes to global temperature rise
What are CO2 emissions?
Resources created from the remains of once living organisms that lived hundreds of millions or years ago.
What are fossil Fuels?
Water sticking to the inside of a water bottle
What is adhesion?
Found along tectonic plate boundaries
Copper/metals/ores
_____ tend to settle and cluster in regions that have resources they need to survive
What are People?
the rate at which ecosystems replenish resources in an area that people use.
What is biocapacity?
Renewable resources can become nonrenewable resources if they are used up faster than they can be...
What is replenished?
Water being a universal solvent
What is polarity?
Over 50% of the world's supply of this resource is found in the middle east
Oil
The economic activities of a region often depend on the resources in that region.
Jobs