8th Gr Unit 5 Review

Which of the following describes the amount of nonrenewable resources Earth has?

• large quantities

• limited quantities

• unlimited quantities

• small quantities

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• natural gas

• plants

• lumber

• clothing

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

• Oil

• Timber

• Natural gas

• Gold

What is the issue with deforestation?

• It kills an ecosystem, causing a source of multiple natural resources to disappear

• It increases the population of the area and, therefore, the demand on natural resources

• It depletes a large supply of timber, a natural resource

• It does not pose any problems

What would reduce how long our coal reserves last?

• finding a way to create man-made coal

• closing down old coal mines to help keep the workers safe

• continuing to use coal to provide heat for cooking, trains, and factories

• building more power stations that rely on coal for generating electricity

Natural resources are distributed evenly across the planet.

• true

• false

A rock called bauxite is how we get the majority of our aluminum. Bauxite would be considered a form of ____.

• energy

• mineral

• groundwater

A nonrenewable resources means that we have _____ time for it to replenish itself in the next few hundred year.

• not enough

• enough

Nonrenewable natural resources were formed _____.

• within the last 100 years

• millions of years ago

• within the last 100,000 years

• within the last year

Every year, we have ____ nonrenewable resources in the world.

• the same amount

• fewer

• more