Non-Renewable Natural Resources

What is a natural resource?

• Material from the Earth that people use for their needs.

• A place hidden in the mountains.

• An object made from natural things.

__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Non-renewable Energy Resource

________ energy sources cannot be replaced quickly.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

4. Fossil fuels came from the fossilized remains of plants and animals from long ago.

• True
• False

Coal, oil, and natural gas are easy to use but ________ the air.

• conserve

• pollute

Besides coal and natural gas, another fossil fuel is

• petroleum/oil

• biomass

• electricity

Coal is a

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

True or False. Methane or natural gas can be pumped out and used for heating.

• True

• False

Which of the following is formed from fossilized animals?

• Solar Power

• Wind power

• Oil

Natural gas is.

• Usable energy from the sun.

• Methane which naturally occurs under the land and sea.

• Energy harnessed from water.