Natural Resources
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
A solid, formed in nature, that have never been alive.
What is a mineral?
This is a mixture of water, air, bits of rocks and humus.
What is soil?
The name for reducing, reusing, and recycling.
What are the "Three Rs?"
Water is this type of resource.
What is renewable?
A natural resource used to build furniture and homes.
What are trees?
This is made up of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
This type of soil has the largest particles.
What is sand?
Taking something old and making it into something new.
What is recycling?
Oil is this type of resource.
What is nonrenewable?
A natural resource that gives us both heat and light.
What is the sun?
What its called when wind, water, and ice break down rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The top layer of soil.
What is topsoil?
When you ride a bike instead of riding in the car its an example of this "R."
What is reducing?
This is what we call coal, oil, and natural gas.
What are fossil fuels?
A natural resource that is needed to grow plants.
What is soil?
The three types of rocks.
What are metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous?
This type of soil is best for growing plants.
What is loam?
When you use a plastic grocery bag to to hold your school supplies it is an example of this "R."
What is reusing?
Nonrenewable resources will not do this.
What is replace themselves easily?
This is where resources like vegetables, copper, and water come from.
What is the environment?
The process where rocks can change from one form of rock to another.
What is the rock cycle?
Dark, organic material formed in soil from the decayed remains of plants & animals.
What is humus?
Preserving and protecting the natural environment.
What is conservation?
Name four renewable resources.
Possible Answers: What are water, wind, sunlight, plants, and animals?