Natural Resources

Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable resources because of -

• Where they are found

• How they are collected

• How useful they are

• How long they take to form

Oil is formed from...

• the remains of dead ocean organisms.

• the remains of ancient rocks as they break down under pressure

• All of the dead forests

• All of the dead dinosaurs

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Coal is formed from...

• The remains of ancient plants from swamps

• The remains of ancient ocean life

• The remains of dead dinosaurs

• Erupting volcanoes

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Minerals, like diamonds, are found

• near fault-lines and magma ancient volcanoes that carried material to the earth's surface

• all over the ocean floor

• evenly across the Earth

• near county and state lines

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Which of the following is a renewable resource?

• coal

• animals

• oil

• diamonds

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Oil comes from deep underground. When people have used all of the oil on Earth, it will be gone. What kind of resource is oil?

• a renewable resource
• an inexhaustible resource
• a nonrenewable resource
• a non-usable resource

Any useful materials that are made by the Earth are called:

• Natural Resources

• Human Resources

• Plants

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Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...

• they are being made faster than they are being used

• they are being used faster than they are being made

• they are only found deep underground

• they are made from the remains of ancient living things

Renewable resources 

• can be replenished.
• cannot be replenished.
• are limited.
• are fossil fuels.

There are large reserves of oil Canada, Saudi Arabia and Russia, because of this we know that these areas were once

• under ancient shallow seas

• part of ancient swamps

• filled with ancient volcanoes

• hot a dry climates

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