Something that comes from the Earth that people use, such as minerals, water, fossil fuels, and food sources
What is natural resource?
100
3 fossil fuels
What are: coal, oil, and natural gas?
100
This resource provides homes and food for many animals.
What are: plants?
100
Anything harmful added to the air, water, or land
What is pollution?
100
To use something again
What is reuse?
200
A resource that can be replaced over time
What is a renewable resource?
200
Every living thing depends on other living things to survive.
What is interdependency?
200
3 examples of nonrenewable resources
What are: coal, oil, & natural gas?
200
An area where solid waste (trash) is buried so pollutants do not leak out
What is a landfill?
200
To change something so that it can be reused again
What is recycle?
300
The saving, preservation, and/or protection of natural resources
What is conservation?
300
The main negative human action that affects the survival of plants and animals.
What is: pollution?
300
3 resources plants produce
What are: oxygen, food, and materials useful for shelter & clothing?
300
The use of a resource
What is consumption?
300
To use less of something; not to waste something
What is reduce?
400
A resource that cannot be replaced once it is used up
What is a nonrenewable resource?
400
4 natural events that can negatively affect the survival of plant and animal species
What are: fires, floods, diseases, & erosion?
400
Plants are important factors in preventing this.
What is: soil erosion?
400
The term used to describe an animal species that has completely died out and no longer exists.
What is extinct?
400
2 examples of reusing
What are: using dishes and utensils that are washed after use rather than using paper plates and plastic utensils that are put in the trash; using hand towels rather than paper towels for drying; use the same drinking glass all day? (Any two)
500
The term that is used to describe a plant or animal species that is in danger of completely dying out
What is: endangered?
500
3 natural sources of energy
What are: sunlight, wind, & water?
500
A conservation practice in which species are protected; Example: protecting endangered plants by saving their seeds
What is resource renewal?
500
The creation of these help preserve land; these also have many uses such as recreation.
What are: parks?
500
Resources will last longer if we do these 3 things!