Natural Resources Review

Which of the following natural resources are nonrenewable?

• Water
• Animals
• Natural gas
• Wind

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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

Why are trees a natural resource?

• The leaves are green
• We use them to make paper, lumber, and other products.
• They are beautiful
• They grow back after they are cut down.

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Takes millions of years to form.

• hydroelectric
• renewable
• solar
• fossil fuels

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Solid fossil fuel formed from ancient plants.

• coal
• oil
• petroleum
• natural gas

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How do fossil fuels affect the environment?

• Expensive
• Leaves fossils at earth's surface
• Causes air pollution when burned
• Bonds sediment.

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How could you conserve a renewable resource?

• Drive electric cars so you won't use gasoline.
• Melt aluminum cans to make new ones.
• Make diamonds in a lab instead of mining them.
• Cut down fewer trees by recycling paper.

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Natural Gas is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

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Geothermal energy is energy from 

• the sun
• heat from deep in the earth
• wind
• inexhaustable

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