Earth's and Florida's Resources

Something found in nature that is useful to people 

• Natural resource
• Artificial resource 
• Erosion 
• Weathering 

A material people burn to get energy 

• Fuel
• Ore
• Mineral 
• Rock 

These formed from the remains of living things, both plants and animals, that died millions of years ago 

• Fossil fuels
• Rock
• Mineral
• Ore 

Minerals, rocks, oil, coal, and natural gas are natural resources that cannot be easily replaced. 

• Nonrenewable resource
• Renewable resource
• Ore
• Fossil Fuel 

Plants, animals, water, wind, the sunlight are natural resources that can be replaced in our lifetime 

• Renewable resource
• nonrenewable resource
• fossil fuel
• ore 

Energy used from blowing wind; the turning blades spin a generator to make electricty 

• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Hydroelectric energy
• Wind

Energy from the sunlight by the use of solar panels 

• Solar energy
• Hydroelectric energy
• Wind energy
• Fossil fuels 

A mineral that is found in sand used for making computer chips and other products

• Silicon
• Coal
• Phosphate
• Limestone 

A mineral used in fertilizer, found in phosphate rock, which is a sedimentary rock 

• Phosphates
• Silicon
• Limestone
• Ore 

This sedimentary rock is formed from shells that is used to build roads in Florida

• Limestone
• Silicon
• Phosphate
• Ore