Renewable and nonrenewable resources

What are renewable resources?

• A limited amount and cannot be replaced in a human life time.

• Plastic bags

• Coal, oil, and natural gas

• Can be replaced in our lifetime through natural processes

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Sunlight is...

• Very bright

• Will eventually run out soon

• A renewable resource

• A nonrenewable resource

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Wood is...

• A renewable resource

• A nonrenewable resource

• Used to make oil

• Used to make plastic

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Gasoline and plastic are made from...

• Plants

• Minerals

• Oil

• Minerals

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__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

• Fossil fuels

• biodegradable

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

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

• natural resources

• pollution

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Made from

• renewable resource

• Non-renewable resource

We can use water to generate electricity as it is

• Non-renewable resource

• Renewable resource