Natural Resources

Any useful material that is found in nature:

• Natural Resource
• Human Resource
• Plants

A resource that is not easily replaced...

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

Can be replaced within a human lifetime

• Nonrenewable resource
• Renewable resource

All of the following are nonrenewable resources EXCEPT

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

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS3-1

A Fossil Fuel is

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use
• Rock that contains metal 
• Fuels that formed years ago from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago.
• Resources that cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out. 

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS3-1