Natural Resources

What is the difference between a renewable and nonrenewable resource?

• All nonrenewable resources pollute the environment, renewable resources do not.

• Nonrenewable resources exist in unlimited quantities; renewable resources do not.

• Nonrenewable resources exist in limited quantities; renewable resources do not.

• Humans use too many nonrenewable resources, but do not use enough renewable resources.

TRUE or FALSE: Renewable resources can never be depleted.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is exponential growth?

• When the growth of a population increases in proportion to the growing total number.

• When the growth of a population decreases in proportion to the growing total number.

• The maximum number of individuals in a population that the environment can support.

• An environmental factor that limits population growth.

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What is open pit mining?

• When tunnels are dug deep underground to remove resources from the earth.

• When trees and soil are removed from the surface in long strips to obtain the resources from the earth.

• When a chemical solvent is pumped into the earth and then recovered to obtain dissolved minerals.

• When a large pit is dug into the ground to obtain minerals.

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Which of the following natural resources are nonrenewable?

• Water
• Animals
• Natural gas
• Wind

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Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...

• they are used to produce heat
• they take a long time to form
• they can be found underground

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What does conserving resources mean?

• Use as much of the resources as you can
• Only use the resources at school
• Protecting the resource so it does not run out

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Any useful material that is found in nature:

• Natural Resource
• Human Resource
• Plants

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Diamonds and other minerals

• Nonrenewable
• Renewable

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We dig metal out of the Earth to make steel for buildings, cars, and buses. Metal is a nonrenewable resource.

• True
• False

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