Natural Resources
Define a natural resource.
What is a resource used for survival or to improve the quality of life?
Define energy resource.
What is a natural resource used for energy?
Define renewable.
What is a natural resource that can be replaced as quickly or quicker than it is being used?
Define a consequence.
What is a result that naturally follows the actions of a group or a person that may be good or bad?
Define distribution.
What is the way in which something, such as a natural resource, is spread out across the Earth?
Which of the following is a natural resource?
A water bottle, a fish, or a notebook.
What is a fish?
Define material resource.
What is a natural resource used to make objects or eat as food?
Define nonrenewable.
What is a natural resource that cannot be replaced as quickly as it is being used.
Define a short term consequence.
What is a consequence that lasts one human lifetime or less?
True or false: natural resources are distributed evenly across Earth's surface.
What is false?
Which of the following is a natural resource?
A pencil, a cheeseburger, or sunlight.
What is sunlight?
Which of the following is a material resource?
A chair, soil, or paper.
What is soil?
Define a potentially renewable resource.
What is a resource that is only renewable if it is not used too quickly.
Define a long term consequence.
What is a consequence that lasts longer than a human lifetime?
True or false: humans impact the distribution of natural resources
What is true?
Give 3 examples of natural resources.
What is water?
What are animals?
What are plants?
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Which of the following is an energy resource?
Sand, clay, or fossil fuels?
What are fossil fuels?
Define an inexhaustible resource.
What is a natural resource that cannot be used up by human activity?
Name a negative consequence to using fossil fuels as our primary energy source.
What is pollution and that we can run out of them since they are nonrenewable?
True or false: natural processes impact the distribution of natural resources.
What is true?
Explain the impact that humans have on natural resources.
(What is) The more nonrenewable resources we use, the less we will have in the future. (What is) humans change the distribution of natural resources when we use them.
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Name a natural resource that is both a material and an energy resource.
What are fossil fuels? What are trees? What is water? What is corn?
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Group together the following resources as renewable or nonrenewable.
Wind, sunlight, rocks, fossil fuels, moving water, biomass, and minerals
What are wind, sunlight, moving water, biomass (renewable)
What are rocks, fossil fuels, minerals (nonrenewable)
Name a positive consequence of using energy resources other than fossil fuels?
What is less pollution and decreased risk in running out of them?
Explain why natural resources are unevenly distributed on and near the Earth's surface.
What are the natural geologic processes that form them and the human processes that move them?