To Protect and Conserve-ESS Week 6

Read this sentence: Thinking about ways to conserve the Earth's resources is important. In this sentence, the word conserve means _____.

• save

• use up

• spend

• ignore

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• sunlight

• coal

• salt

• trees

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Which type of resource will probably never run out, no matter how much people use?

• renewable

• nonrenewable

• inexhaustible

• recyclable

Most living things like plants and animals can grow to replace themselves even though it may happen slowly, so they are called _____?

• nonrenewable

• inexhaustible

• recyclable

• renewable

Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" warned people about the dangers to the environment from farmers using _____.

• tractors

• too much water

• pesticides

• crop rotation

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Which of these resources can be recycled or used over and over again?

• aluminum

• coal

• petroleum

• salt

Which of the following is a machine that is good for conservation of resources?

• The oil drilling pump

• The sun

• The solar panel

• The sky

What conservation method was begun by farmers long ago to keep soil from being eroded by wind and water?

• Crop rotation

• Recycling

• Overgrazing

• Terracing

A family wants to use a renewable source of energy for heat in the winter. The family lives on a ranch in a windy area with very few hours of sunlight in the winter and alot of sunlight in the summer. Identify which energy source would work best for the family.

• Wind

• Sunlight

• Coal

• Oil

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Why is it our responsibility to protect and conserve our natural resources? Choose two answers.

• It will help us enjoy our world we live in.

• It will provide many resources that normally wouldn't be available.

• It will leave alot of world for our children and grandchildren to enjoy.

• It will use up all of the renewable resources.

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