Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Open Ended

What is the one thing that you cannot live without?

Natural Resources

A natural resource is something that is found in nature and can be used by people.

People need some natural resources to stay alive. They use others to make their lives better.

Renewable Resources

• These are those resources that can be renewed in a short time.

• These do not cause any pollution to the environment.

• These are the free gifts of nature.

Non-renewable Resources

• These are those resources that cannot be renewed in a short time.

• The cause pollution to the environment.

• These are not the free gifts of nature.

  
  

Examples of Non-renewable Resources

• Fossil energy sources - formed when prehistoric plants and animals died and were gradually buried by a layer of rocks.

• Nuclear energy is usuallyconsidered as non-renewable resources.

• Diamonds and minerals

Poll

Did you learn something new today?

• YES

• NO

Open Ended

Do you have some questions or clarifications before we will proceed to our short quiz?

SHORT QUIZ

Multiple Select

Examples of renewable energy resources include –

• Solar energy

• Nuclear power

• Wind energy

• Hydro power

• Geothermal energy

Multiple Choice

Why is water a renewable resource?

• It can be frozen into ice.

• It evaporates into air.

• It is constantly replaced.

Multiple Choice

We dig metal out of the Earth to make steel for buildingsand automobiles. Metal is a nonrenewable resource.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Diamonds and other minerals

• nonrenewable.

• renewable.

Multiple Choice

Which renewable resource gets its direct energy from the sun?

• Geothermal

• Solar

• Wind

• Hydrogen

Multiple Choice

What type of power plant uses scraps from farming and waste products to generate electricity?

• Hydroelectric Power Plant

• Geothermal Power Plant

• Biomass Power Plant

• Nuclear Power Plant

Multiple Choice

Anything from nature that living things use is called a ______________.

• energy

• pollution

• food

• natural resource

Multiple Choice

Hydroelectric plants perform which type of energy conversion?

• Water to Electricity

• Electricity to Water

• Wind to Electricity

• Wind to Chemical

Multiple Choice

This type of renewable energy converts the power of the wind to electricity.

• steam engines

• solar power

• wind turbines

• nuclear power

Multiple Select

Choose ALL of the nonrenewable energy resources

• sun

• fossil fuels

• nuclear fuel

• wind

• natural gas

Multiple Choice

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Non-Renewable Energy Resource

Multiple Choice

A Fossil Fuel is

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use
• Rock that contains metal 
• Fuels that formed years ago from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago.
• Resources that cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out. 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• cotton

• trees

• cattle

• uranium

I hope you learn something new today. Thank you so much for your participation.