Resources
Materials supplied by nature that are useful or necessary for life.
ex: minerals, timber, land, water, soil
Natural Resources
An area over which surface water (and the materials it carries) flows to a single collection place.
A watershed
Cover more than 60% percent of Virginia
Forests
a renewable resource. It comes from weathered rock and plant and animal material. Helped people thrive in VA for thousands of years.
Soil
A Virginia natural resource important to the state's economy, as well as, a primary source of energy
Coal
Materials made by people using natural resources that are useful or necessary for life.
ex. cars, homes, clothes
Human-Made Resources
A large natural stream of water that flows into another body of water.
Rivers
Natural Forests
Occurs when soil, rock, and sediment are removed from an area of land by water, wind, or ice.
Erosion
"We all live downstream"
Resource that can be replaced after being used
Renewable Resource
A body of water entirely or nearly surrounded by land usually made of fresh water.
Lakes
Forests that have been grown and/or changed by mankind. Provide us with economic activities such as: logging, paper products and household items.
Cultivated Forests
Land that is suitable for farming.
Arable
Always Forget Your Journal
Alexandria, Fredricksburg, Yorktown, Jamestown
Resource that cannot be replaced after being used
Non-Renewable Resource
A part of an ocean extending into the land.
Bays
Common Trees (name 3)
Flowering Dogwood, birches, hickories, locusts, maples, red cedars, popular oak, tulip trees
Virginia farmers grow (name 2)
soybeans, cotton, corn, wheat, apples
Large bodies of water that cover the earth.
Ocean
Three examples of renewable and non-renewable resources.
Renewable: sunlight, water, air
Non-renewable: coal, gas, oil
Which rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay?
Potomac, York, James, Rappahannock
Common Animals (name 3)
deer, black bears, foxes, opossums, rabbits, raccoons, ducks, turkeys
Virginia farmers raise
poultry, cattle, hogs, sheep and horses
Please Remember Your Journal
Potomac, Rappahannock, York, James