Natural Resources

A resource that is not easily replaced...

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...

• they are used to produce heat
• they take a long time to form
• they can be found underground

Any useful material that is found in nature:

• Natural Resource
• Human Resource
• Plants

Diamonds and other minerals

• Nonrenewable
• Renewable

Can be replaced within a human lifetime

• Nonrenewable resource
• Renewable resource

Which group includes ALL renewable resources?

• Coal, trees, water, oil
• Water, wind, sun, plants
• Minerals, sun, natural gas, water

Which of these is renewable?

• Water
• Oil
• Coal
• Minerals

We dig metal out of the Earth to make steel for buildings, cars, and buses. Metal is a nonrenewable resource.

• True
• False

A resource that can be easily replaced...

• Nonrenewable
• Renewable

Metals, oils, and gas are nonrenewable resources. One day they could be all used up.

• True
• False