7th Science- 4.1 Natural Resources

7th Science- Natural Resources

Multiple Select

What are natural resources?

• Air, Soil, Minerals, Water, Petroleum, Plants, and Animals

• Any material that is used by humans

• What I find in my backyard that I can use

• Anything created in a laboratory

Multiple Select

What are the two categories we use to classify natural resources?

• Water-based

• Renewable

• Land-based

• Nonrenewable

Renewable Resource

• A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed.

• Can be used quicker then they are replaced

• inexhaustible resources- can never be used up

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What are resources called that can never be used up?

Multiple Choice

Which claim explains why food crops are thought of as renewable resources?

• They are essential for human life

• They are not very expensive to grow

• New crops can be planted every growing season

• They cannot be replaced as quickly as they are used

Nonrenewable Resources

• A resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which it is consumed

• Fossil fuels- a nonrenewable resource formed from buried remains of plants and animals

Multiple Choice

Coal is a nonrenewable natural resource. which statement would be evidence that coal is nonrenewable?

• Coal will never run out

• No new coal is being produced on Earth

• Coal is used to produce energy and not material

• Coal is being used faster than it is being produced

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A Nonrenewable resource that formed from buried remains of plants and animals

How we use natural resources

• Material Resources- humans use to make objects to consume

• Energy Resources- humans use to make energy

Multiple Choice

Which of these activities requires the use of a material resources?

• heating a home

• manufacturing steel

• climbing a tall mountain

• generating an electric current

Multiple Choice

What do coal, petroleum, and wood have in common?

• All are considered nonrenewable resources

• All are categorized as renewable resources

• All can be categorized as energy resources

• All can be considered inexhaustible