Natural Resources

What can you do to conserve resources in your daily life?

• Use less water

• Take a bath for 5 hours

• Use a car instead of a bicycle

• Leaving the light on all day

Renewable resources are:

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use
• Rock that contains metal 
• Fuels that formed from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago.
• Resources that are constantly being replaced and will not run out. 

Which is a Renewable Resource?

• Coal

• Gasoline

• Cars

• Crops

When travelling short distances, you can conserve natural resources by ________.

• biking
• driving
• taking a train
• flying

Which is a way we can protect our natural resources?

• litter
• recycle
• pollute
• contaminate

To protect natural resources, we must _______ them by not wasting them.

• conserve
• dispose
• stop
• hide

Energy sources that are not easily replenished are called...

• renewable resources
• nonrenewable resources

Which of these are ways that humans use wood?

• paper and building houses
• eating and drinking
• cars and heat
• drinking and bathing

Rosa's neighborhood is only allowed to water their lawns on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What is the most likely explanation for why Rosa's neighborhood can only water their lawns two days a week?

• Water is a renewable resource that needs to be conserved.

• Water is a nonrenewable resource that needs to be conserved.

• Water erodes the soil, and soil is a renewable resource that needs to be conserved.

• Water corrodes the soil, and soil is a nonrenewable resource that needs to be conserved.

Which of the following means of transportation uses a renewable resource for its energy source?

• solar powered car
• coal powered steam train
• natural gas car
• gasoline truck