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Vocabulary
Energy Resources
Renewable Energy Resources
Land Resources
Air and Water Resources
100
What is a natural resource?
Something that comes from the earth and is made into something useful for humans.
100

Fossil fuels are a renewable resource (true or false)

False, nonrenewable.

100

Renewable resources will be gone before nonrenewable resources.  

*true or false*

false 

100
Deforestation can lead to.

loss of animal habitats, soil erosion, global warming

100

Name one thing that has had a huge impact on our soil resources in the US since colonial times.

Agriculture (erosion), development of buildings   

200

A resource that can be replaced by natural processes in a relatively short amount of time.

A renewable resource

200

What are Gasoline, Natural Gas, Coal, Oil examples of?

fossil fuels

200

Can be used for energy instead of fossil fuels?

Wind, Water, Sun, Geothermal 

200

Name an example of land as a resource.

habitats, agriculture (farming), minerals 

200
Where does most of the energy we use come from?
Fossil fuels - Coal, Oil and Natural gas
300

A natural resource that is used faster than it can be replaced by natural processes. 

non-renewable resource

300

Name the two major disadvantages of using fossil fuels for energy.

They are non-renewable and they polute the air as they are burned to produce energy

300

Geothermal energy comes from.

Earth's core 

300
Name a disadvantage of oil drilling?

Global warming, using nonrenewable resources, costly

300

Water is 97% _____, and 3% ______ .

salt, fresh

400
Cutting of large areas of forests for human activities. 

Deforestation 

400
Wind can be used as a source of energy, what tool is used to harvest the wind and make it into electricity?
A windmill
400

An example of a renewable resource

solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy

400

One way government or people can manage resources? 

placing laws on them, preserving them

400

One thing we can do to preserve water and air resources

take shorter showers, drive less

500

definition of preserve

to save, keep safe from destruction

500

Name at least three natural resource needed to make an apple pie.

apples - from trees grown in the soil 

flour - from wheat grown in the soil 

water - to make crust, and water the apple tree metal - mined from the earth to make a pan and the oven 

500

One example of a renewable energy resource

water, air

500

Increase land usage and human impact , _______ natural resources.

*hint: increases or decreases*

decreases

500
As human population and consumption increases, the negative impacts on Earth _______ . 

increase