Natural Resources

Natural Resources

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Open Ended

Define natural resources in your own words.

​Why are Resources Important?

​Can you imagine a world without air? With no land? With no water?

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People couldn’t live without air to breathe, water to drink, and land to walk on.

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Those three things are some of our planet’s most important resources.

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Open Ended

One example of a natural resource could be:

Types of Natural Resources

Renewable and Non Renewable Resources

​What is Renewable

• ​​That means they can be “made new again”.

• ​Example: Water, animals (cows, sheeps, rabbits, pigs) , plants (cotton, apple tree, lemon tree, orange tree), sun energy, wind, etc.

Multiple Choice

Sunlight is a _________ resource

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

Multiple Choice

Which of these is classified as a renewable resource?

• Natural gas

• Minerals

• Plants

• Crude oil

Multiple Select

Select all the renewables.

• Air

• Natural Gas

• Wind

• Rocks and Minerals

• Fish

Open Ended

How long do you think it takes a renewable resource to come back?

Renewable resources can be replaced within a human lifetime or less.

Multiple Choice

What makes a resource renewable?

• It is found underground

• It can be replaced

• It can only be used by animals

Multiple Choice

Water is a...

• Renewable Resource

• Non-Renewable Resource

Multiple Choice

Cotton plant is a

• Renewable Resource

• Non-renewable resource

Multiple Choice

A cow is a renewable resource

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Why is solar energy considered a renewable resource

• It is not a renewable resource

• Because there is an unlimited supply of sunlight 

• Because a new sun is made each day 

Multiple Choice

Oil and minerals are renewable resources

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Why are these resources considered to be non-renewable resources?

• They are expensive

• They are made everyday.

• Because they take so long to make, when they are finished we won't have them anymore.

Coal

• Humans dig it out and burn it to produce energy/electricity

Oil

• Over millions of years tiny dead animals are pressed down by mud and rocks.

• The pressure forms a liquid called oil that we used for gasoline, to make plastics and more.

Multiple Choice

How long does oil take to form?

• 100 years

• 1,000 years

• A few months

• Millions of years

Rocks and Minerals

Can take millions of years to form.

Examples:

-Sand is used to make glass

-Rubies and Diamonds: Jewelry

-Marble: Building materials

-Used in electronics

Multiple Choice

Since natural gas is formed from dead plants, it's a renewable resource.

• True

• False

Open Ended

How long does it take non-renewable resources to come back?

Multiple Choice

All of the following are considered renewable energy sources EXCEPT –

• Wind

• Coal

• Biomass

• Solar

Multiple Choice

The wise use of natural resources is called

• Biomass

• Conservation

• Production

• Restoration

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?

• Renewable resources can be replaced faster than non-renewable.

• Non-renewable resources can be replaced by more resources.

• non-renewable resources cannot be used by humans.

• Renewable resources are renewed into something new.

Multiple Choice

Would this material be considered renewable or non-renewable?

• Renewable

• Non-Renewable

Multiple Choice

Any useful material that is found in nature:

• Natural Resource

• Human Resource

• Plants

Multiple Choice

Would this item be considered renewable or non-renewable?

• Renewable

• Non-Renewable

Multiple Choice

Would these items be considered renewable or non-renewable? (Think of what is made out of)

• Renewable

• Non-Renewable

Multiple Choice

Would this item be considered renewable or non-renewable? (Think of what is made out of)

• Renewable

• Non-Renewable

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

• When we stop wasting something, we reduce how much of it we use.

• We recycle something when we turn it in to a company and they use it to make new products.

• By using something you do not need anymore to make something useful is how you can reuse.

Match

Match the word with its defintion

• Renewable

• reusable

• recyclable

• Reduce

• Refuse

that it can be made again, renewed

That you can use it again and again

That it can be transformed into something else

to use less of something

to choose not to use or consume something

• that it can be made again, renewed

• That you can use it again and again

• That it can be transformed into something else

• to use less of something

• to choose not to use or consume something

Reorder

Reorder the following to show which has the most impact on conserving resources (1 most, 5 least)

• Refuse

• Reduce

• Reuse

• Recycle

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4