Renewable Resources
This resource covers 70% of Earth and is replenished by precipitation
What is water?
This black, solid rock is dug out of the ground and burned for electricity.
What is coal?
This flow resource uses large panels on roofs to convert sunlight directly into electricity.
What is solar power?
You are look at a pile of aluminum soda cans.
What is nonrenewable resource?
What is the resource that is used for nuclear energy
What is Uranium?
These tall plants provide oxygen and wood and are renewable as long as we replant and harvest sustainably
What are trees?
This liquid fossil fuel is used to make gasoline
What is fossil fuel?
These large, three-bladed turbines harness the energy of moving air
What is wind energy?
You are standing in a field of corn to be used for food or fuel.
What is renewable?
Where did most fossil fuels came from
What are plant and animal fossils (dinosaurs)?
What is fish?
Aluminum cans and gold jewelry are made from these, which are mined from the Earth
What are minerals (or metals)?
Unlike a river, this flow resource relies specifically on the moon's gravitational pull on the Earth's oceans
What is tidal energy?
You are watching waves crash against a pier or beach
What is flow resource?
What are the 3 R's of resource management to help protect the environment
What are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle?
This thin layer of the Earth's surface full of nutrients take hundreds of years to naturally form, meaning we need to manage it properly
What is soil?
This fossil fuel is often pumped into our homes to power them.
This flow resource uses the movement of fast moving water, like Niagara Falls, to make electricity
What is water power (hydroelectricity)?
You are looking at the solar powered lights turn on in your backyard
What is flow resource?
Some resources, like soil, take so long to be replaced that they are almost nonrenewable. (true or false)
What is true?
This word describes the practice of using resources at a rate that allows them to renew for suture generations
What is sustainability?
It take this many years for nature to make more fossil fuels like coal and oil
What is millions of years?
This type of energy comes from the heat found deep inside the Earth (often near volcanoes)
What is geothermal energy?
You are using a lithium-ion battery in your smartphone
What is nonrenewable resource?
What are the 3 main forestry methods
What are clear cutting, selective cutting and shelterwood cutting