Intro to Natural Resources

Choosing to not use our natural resources

• reduction

• conservation

• preservation

• protection

An area made up of a distinct combination of plants and animals

• biome

• habitat

• niche

• community

Using a product again without re-manufacturing

• remanufacturing

• reproducing

• reusing

• recycling

Reusing a product or using waste materials to make a new product

• reusing

• recycling

• remanufacturing

• reproducing

Where an organism lives within the environment

• niche

• ecosystem

• biome

• community

A waste management technique in which organic matter is decomposed through the action of microbes and other decomposers such as earthworms

• recycling

• composting

• reducing

• waste disposal

The wise use of natural resources

• preservation

• conservation

• reduction

• sustainability

Whether or not a resource can be restored after use

• exhaustibility

• renewability

• preservation

• conservation

Biotic factors are ___ things found in an ecosystem

• non-living

• dead

• living

• non-existent

The study of how organisms exist in their environment

• biology

• entomology

• ecology

• biomology