Vocabulary Quiz #16

What is a Natural Resource?

• Any of the useful minerals and other materials that people take from the Earth

• A resource that cannot easily be exhausted because it is rapidly replaced by nature (air, water, plants, and animals)

• A resource that, once exhausted, cannot be replaced in a short amount of time (oil, coal, and natural gas)

• To protect resources and avoid wasteful and destructive use

What is a Renewable Resource?

• Any of the useful minerals and other materials that people take from the Earth

• A resource that cannot easily be exhausted because it is rapidly replaced by nature (air, water, plants, and animals)

• A resource that, once exhausted, cannot be replaced in a short amount of time (oil, coal, and natural gas)

• To protect resources and avoid wasteful and destructive use

What is a Nonrenewable Resource?

• Any of the useful minerals and other materials that people take from the Earth

• A resource that cannot easily be exhausted because it is rapidly replaced by nature (air, water, plants, and animals)

• A resource that, once exhausted, cannot be replaced in a short amount of time (oil, coal, and natural gas)

• To protect resources and avoid wasteful and destructive use

What is Conservation?

• Any of the useful minerals and other materials that people take from the Earth

• A resource that cannot easily be exhausted because it is rapidly replaced by nature (air, water, plants, and animals)

• A resource that, once exhausted, cannot be replaced in a short amount of time (oil, coal, and natural gas)

• To protect resources and avoid wasteful and destructive use

What is Recycling?

• Processing waste items so the materials they are made of can be used to make new items

• Using an item over again

• Using less of a product or a resource

• To protect resources and avoid wasteful and destructive use

What does it mean to Reuse?

• Processing waste items so the materials they are made of can be used to make new items

• Using an item over again

• Using less of a product or a resource

• To protect resources and avoid wasteful and destructive use

What does it mean to Reduce?

• Processing waste items so the materials they are made of can be used to make new items

• Using an item over again

• Using less of a product or a resource

• To protect resources and avoid wasteful and destructive use

What are Alternate Energy Sources?

• Processing waste items so the materials they are made of can be used to make new items

• Using an item over again

• Using less of a product or a resource

• Energy generated by natural processes that is renewable

What are Parallel Lines?

• Two lines that are always the same distance apart; they do not intersect or cross

• Lines that cross at a point

• Two lines that intersect to form right angles

What are Intersecting Lines?

• Two lines that are always the same distance apart; they do not intersect or cross

• Lines that cross at a point

• Two lines that intersect to form right angles