Natural Resources Intro

Natural Resources Intro

by Isabel Canizares

Open Ended

Gratitude Moment

Think of something that is found in nature that brings you joy. Explain what it is and why.

Example: fall leaf tree colors; love the different colors and how pretty they look as well as the crunch of the leaves after they fall

Retakes Reminder​

​You will have until FRIDAY to do the retakes on this assignment. If you score a B (regular) or an A (honors) or above you will guarantee a C for the first SRG of this new topic.

The Four Spheres Review:

All the elements and properties in the Earth’s system are divided into four major subsystems or spheres which are called:  

•Geosphere (land, mountains, volcanoes, etc.)

•Atmosphere (air)

•Hydrosphere  (water - oceans (salt) & freshwater (lakes, rivers, etc.)

•Biosphere (all living things)

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT one of the Earth's 4 Spheres?

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Dinosphere

• Atmosphere

Multiple Choice

Which sphere are you part of?

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

Multiple Choice

Which sphere is the video showing?!

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

Multiple Choice

Which sphere is not essential for our survival?

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

• All spheres are important!

Open Ended

We drink freshwater (ocean/salt water is not safe to drink).  The map shows the availability of freshwater by country. Write two observations you made of the map.

What is a natural resource?

• Anything on Earth that humans use

• Some can be used over and over

• Some can only be used once

• ​Examples

  • ​Oil

  • ​Coal

  • ​Gas

  • ​Metals

  • ​Stone

  • ​Sand

  • ​Water

  • ​Air

  • ​Soil

  • ​Plants etc.

Multiple Choice

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

• energy
• pollution
• food
• natural resource

Multiple Choice

Why are trees a natural resource?

• The leaves are green
• We use them to make paper, lumber, and other products.
• They are beautiful
• They grow back after they are cut down.

Multiple Choice

What does conserving resources mean?

• Use as much of the resources as you can
• Only use the resources at school
• Protecting the resource so it does not run out

​Two Types of Natural Resources

• ​Renewable: resources that can replenish at the rate it is used (ex: wind, sunshine etc.)

• ​Nonrenewable: a resource that has a limited supply

Multiple Choice

Non renewable resources are

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use.
• Rock that contains metal
• Fuels that formed 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 is a Renewable Resource?

• Coal
• Gasoline
• Ore
• Crops

Multiple Choice

Which of the following means of transportation uses a renewable resource for its energy source?

• solar powered car
• coal powered steam train
• natural gas car
• gasoline truck

Multiple Choice

A farmer decides that he is going to produce his own energy on the farm by using a type of renewable energy. The renewable energy could come from--

• setting up wind turbines
• having a coal furnace
• using natural gas
• burning oil

Multiple Choice

Oil comes from deep underground. When people have used all of the oil on Earth, it will be gone. What kind of resource is oil?

• a renewable resource
• an inexhaustible resource
• a nonrenewable resource
• a messy resource

Multiple Choice

What should be pictured in picture 2 to show a renewable resource?

• young trees which have just been  planted
• level land with stumps removed
• a pond fish live in
• a log cabin that the trees were used to build

Three Major Types of Fossil Fuels

• Oil or Petroleum

• Natural Gas

• Coal

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is NOT an example of a fossil fuel?

• Corn oil

• Petroleum

• Oil

• Natural Gas

Fossil Fuel Formation Process

• ​Look carefully at the images on the right

• Animals and Plants live and grow in an oxygen rich environment.

• Animals (oil & gas) and plants (coal) die

• Sediments (sand, dirt, etc) bury the dead animal/plant

• Extreme Pressure from rock layers above compact

  Millions of years + heat + pressure

Multiple Choice

The first step in the formation of fossil fuels is..

• Need abundance of plants or animal

• Plants and animals die.

• Compaction

• Burial

Multiple Choice

The second step to the formation of fossil fuels would be..

• Your teacher becomes a teenager.

• Compaction

• Plants or animals die.

• Plants and animals are buried.

Multiple Choice

The third step to formation of fossil fuels would be...

• Plants and Animals Die

• Plants and animals are buried under sediments (sand, dirt, etc.)

• Compaction

• This is your teacher's present stage - dead inside and heart starting to rot.

Multiple Choice

The fourth step in the formation of fossil fuels is they go throw compaction and cementation which needs..

• Happy thoughts or chocolate (as chocolate brings happy thoughts)

• Water

• Pressure

• Sediments

Multiple Select

Fossil Fuels require which 3 things in order to form:

• Millions of years

• Pressure

• Heat

• Scientists

Multiple Choice

Fossil fuels formed over long periods of time after particles in water settled to the sea floor and formed marine mud. What kinds of particles needed to be present in the marine mud in order for fossil fuels to form?

• Mostly sand and a few small bits of wood.

• Mostly decaying organisms

• Mostly lava and a few sedimentary rocks.

• Mostly metal minerals.

Multiple Choice

Fossil fuels are produced in ___________

• an environment that has little or no oxygen

• an environment that has a lot of oxygen

• an environment that has little or no hydrogen

Multiple Choice

Hydrocarbons are chemical compounds made mainly of __________atoms

• Hydrogen and Carbon

• Hydrogen and Oxygen

• Hydroxide and Calcium

Multiple Select

What is needed to ALL fossil fuels?

• High heat

• Cold temperatures

• 100s of millions of years

• Pressure

Multiple Choice

Why do we say that fossil fuels are nonrenewable?

• We don't, they are renewable resources

• They are created quickly

• They are created slowly

• New ones cannot be made ever