Earth's Resources Assessment

The system that contains all living things on Earth.

• Biosphere

• Atmoshpere

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

All of the following are nonrenewable resources EXCEPT

• Coal
• animals
• petroleum (oil)
• natural gas

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

VOCABULARY: The amount of a resource that can be harvested without reducing the amount of future harvests.

• Resource Management
• Ecosystem Based  Management
• Deforestation
• Maximum Sustainable Yield

A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface of the earth

• Igneous Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Sedimentary Rock
• chemical Rock

The definition of Desertification is...

• Land that is fertile and able to grow plants

• the process of ocean water losing salt

• the process in which land loses fertility and ability to grow plants

• giving humans the advantage of having fertile soil

Sand and gravel and crushed stone that naturally accumulate on Earth's surface.

• Bedrock

• Aggregrate

• Ore

• Tailings

What is the bottom layer of soil called?

• bedrock

• topsoil

• subsoil

A natural resource that can be mined for profit.

• ore

• water

• tailings

• aggregrate

What is ore?

• A pure deposit of a mineral
• The leftover waste from a mine
• Rock that contains a desired mineral
• The portion of a resource that is legally extractable