Mineral Resources
Energy Resources
Natural Resources
Resource Location
Vocabulary
Challenge
100
This common metal is most of what steel is made from.
What is iron?
100
Plastic is made from this substance, which is also an energy resource.
What is petroleum (oil)?
100
This natural resource comes from cutting down trees.
What is wood?
100
This common resource is found in most places, but not in the ocean where it is too salty to use.
What is freshwater (water)?
100
Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What is a natural resource?
100
The type of fossil fuel that Thailand extracts from the Gulf of Thailand and refines in Rayong.
What is natural gas?
200
This image shows a type of mineral resource that is commonly used for counter tops in houses and other high end interior finishes.
What is marble?
200
This is the common name for a type of energy resource that comes from ancient dead organisms, mostly plants, that decayed underground without oxygen and under intense heat and pressure.
What are fossil fuels?
200
This natural resources is made out of a combination of highly weathered rock and dead plants.
What is soil?
200
This is the name for a place where raw materials are pulled out of the ground.
What is a mine?
200
A form of energy resulting from the flow of charged particles.
What is electricity?
200
This fossil fuel is the primary source of electricity for the Mae Moh power plant which provides Chiang Mai with most of it's electricity.
What is coal?
300
Porcelain is one of the common processed materials that is made from this material, a type of clay.
What is Kaolin Clay?
300
Wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal power plants are usually said to be this type of energy resource, because their supply is not limited in a typical human lifespan.
What are renewable resources?
300
This natural resource covers most of the surface of the Earth, but can also be found underground in most places.
What is groundwater?
300
This type of material is created in a place that looks like this; called a foundry.
What is steel (or other metals).
300
The solid, unweathered layer of rock that lies beneath the soil and other loose surface materials.
What is bedrock?
300
The study of the distribution and movement of groundwater in the soil and rocks of the Earth’s crust.
What is hydrogeology?
400
This mineral resource comes from an ore called Bauxite, and is one of the most common materials used today.
What is aluminum?
400
This energy is the primary fuel used in nuclear power plants.
What is uranium?
400
This non-renewable natural resource is also a fossil fuel used for energy. It is formed by petroleum being absorbed into sandy rock, then being formed into a rock by intense pressure over a long time.
What is coal?
400
Fossil fuels are typically found where these have been buried.
What are ancient rain forests,coral reefs or swamps?
400
The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces (pores).
What is an porosity?
400
The source of energy that the Sun uses.
What is nuclear fusion (of hydrogen gas)?
500
Chalcopyrite is the name of one of the ores that yields this mineral resource; another commonly used metal.
What is copper?
500
This is the name of the type of factory that turns crude oil from the ground into a variety of useful products.
What is an (oil) refinery?
500
This type of plant is usually the first to start breaking rocks down into smaller rocks, allowing it to later form into other useful natural resources.
What are lichen?
500
Copper ore deposits are usually found near these places.
What is near tectonic plate boundaries or where there has been volcanic activity?
500
The ability of a material to allow fluids to pass through.
What is permeability?
500
A type of resource that either does not replenish itself naturally, or replenishes itself so slowly that it won't come back during a human lifetime.
Examples: fossil fuels, iron, copper, marble, uranium
What is a non-renewable resource?