Which Resources are Found in Florida

Which of the following lists only renewable resources?

• Coal, sunlight, water, wood

• Sunlight, wind, steel, oil

• Wind, sunlight, water, plants

• Natural gas, coal, oil, minerals

Water is an important resource in Florida. Freshwater is used for homes and businesses. Salt water is used for recreation and fishing. What type of resource is water?

• human resource

• mineral resource

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

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Devin’s family is building a house. His parents want to use a renewable energy source to provide energy for the house. Which of the following could they use?

• coal

• natural gas

• oil

• solar energy

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Something found in nature that is useful to people 

• Natural resource
• Artificial resource 
• Erosion 
• Weathering 

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A material people burn to get energy 

• Fuel
• Ore
• Mineral 
• Rock 

These formed from the remains of living things, both plants and animals, that died millions of years ago 

• Fossil fuels
• Rock
• Mineral
• Ore 

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Minerals, rocks, oil, coal, and natural gas are natural resources that cannot be easily replaced. 

• Nonrenewable resource
• Renewable resource
• Ore
• Fossil Fuel 

Plants, animals, water, wind, the sunlight are natural resources that can be replaced in our lifetime 

• Renewable resource
• nonrenewable resource
• fossil fuel
• ore 

Energy used from blowing wind; the turning blades spin a generator to make electricty 

• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Hydroelectric energy
• Wind

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Energy from the sunlight by the use of solar panels 

• Solar energy
• Hydroelectric energy
• Wind energy
• Fossil fuels 

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