Natural Resources - Grade 4

What is a non renewable resource?

• water
• wind
• coal
• biomass

Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?

• They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.
• They are being formed too far beneath the surface.
• The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.
• We are depleting the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

Reusing objects is good for our environment because.... Choose 2.

• it costs more money.

• it keeps objects out of landfills.

• it can save you money.

• it saves the town time from picking them up.

What does the word CONSERVATION mean?

• to burn

• to collect

• to convince

• to save

Air, water, trees, rocks and minerals, soil, coal and oil are all examples of which type of resource?

• Renewable resources
• Nonrenewable resources
• Natural resources
• Inexhaustible resources

Why are fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas called nonrenewable resources?

• a.  They can never be replaced.
• a.  They cannot be easily replaced.
• a.  They can be recycled.
• a.  They can be made in factories.
  

Energy that uses heat that comes from within the Earth is called

• Geophysical
• Geography
• Geothermal
• Geographic

Which processes are needed to produce fossil fuels?

• organisms, heat, sediments and glacier erosion
• organisms, heat and volcanic activity
• organisms, heat, pressure and million of years
• organisms, heat and earthquakes

Plants are an example of  . . .

• renewable resources
• nonrenewable resources
• alternative resources
• electrical resources

A resource that is used faster than our Earth can replace it is known as a . . .

• renewable resource
• nonrenewable resource
• natural resource
• income resource