Natural Resources
We take _____ from the earth to help us live.
What are natural resources?
TWO examples of nonrenewable resources.
What is -coal -gas -oil -petroleum -natural gas -gold?
TWO examples of renewable resources.
What are -trees -plants -animals -sun -wind -water?
TWO examples of energy sources that are inexhaustible.
What are wind and sun?
TWO examples of conserving natural resources?
What is -walk to school -take shorter showers -recycle -use rechargeable batteries - recycle and reuse?
Resources that can be renewable and nonrenewable depending on how they are managed.
What is potentially renewable?
The age of coal.
What is millions of years old?
The _____ provides solar energy.
What is the sun?
1- A natural resource used as a source of energy. 2- ONE resource example with ONE way it is used.
1- What is energy resource? 2- What is wood and what is burned for heat?
These resources will always be available/never run out.
What is inexhaustible?
A resource that will not come back faster than we use it.
What is nonrenewable?
The reason we conserve nonrenewable resources.
What is once we use them, they are gone/they run out?
The reason why animal life and plant life are renewable/potentially renewable.
What is reproduce/grow? (if managed correctly and replaced faster than depleted).
1- A natural resource used to make products/objects/food/material. 2- ONE resource example with ONE products/objects/food/material.
1- What are material resources? 2- What are animals/trees? What are gelatin/clothes/food/paper/buildings?
The reason for crop rotation.
What is keep the soil rich, healthy and full of nutrients?
Coal, natural gas, and gold have this in common.
What is nonrenewable?
A resource that provides hydroelectric energy.
What is water?
An energy resource that comes from plant matter or other organic material.
What is biomass?
To be mindful of how we use resources.
What is conserve?
The different arrangements or amounts of occurrence over an area.
What is uneven distribution?
TWO examples of how we use nonrenewable resources.
What is -fuel/gas for vehicles/cooking -steel for building bridges/car parts - gems for jewelry/dental?
A disadvantage of using biomass, wind, or hydropower as an energy resource.
What is not always available in all areas?
1- A material that is used as both an energy and material resource. 2- ONE example of the energy product/service and ONE example of the material the product/service the material it provides.
1- What is trees/petroleum? 2- what is fuel/fire and paper/building or what is fuel/fire and plastic?
The factor that determines if a resource is renewable or nonrenewable.
What is if it can replaced at a faster rate than it is used?