Natural Resources

Resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time

• Natural Resources

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

Resources always available regardless of use

• Natural Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Alternative Energy

These are formed deep inside the Earth from the remains of organisms that lived long ago.

• Fossil Fuels

• Natural Resources

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable resource

Something brought into a country to be sold or traded.

• Import

• Export

Contamination of air, water, or soil by materials that are harmful to living things

• Pollution

• Fossil Fuels

• Non Renewable Resource

Resources that take millions of years to form and can be used up

• Natural Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Non renewable resource

Something sent out of a country

to be sold or traded.

• Import

• Export

Things people use that come from the environment

• Natural Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Non renewable resource

• Alternative Energy

Put these in order:

1) Coal begins as plants in a swamp very long ago

2) Coal is mined from under the earth’s surface the burned to produce energy

3) After the plants die, thousands of years of pressure of sediments pressing down and heat changes them to coal

• 1, 2, 3

• 1, 3, 2

• 2, 3, 1

• 2, 1, 3

Falling water turns a turbine creating mechanical energy and a generator converts it into electricity

• Wind

• Hydroelectric

• Geothermal

• Biofuels

• Solar