8.4.1-2 Use of Natural Resources

Natural Resources are

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use. 
• Rocks that contain metal
• Resources that are continually being replaced and will not run out.
• Resources that cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out. 

Non 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 cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out. 

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

• Ore (rocks that contain metals)

• Crops

Which is a non-renewable resource?

• Ore
• Sunlight
• Water
• Crops

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What is the source of geothermal energy?

• sunlight heating surface waters

• the splitting of atoms to release energy

• natural underground reservoirs of steam and hot water

• very hot minerals deep underground

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The advantages of solar energy include the fact that it is

• nonrenewable

• non-polluting

• expensive

• absent at night

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Anything from nature that living things use is called a ______________.

• energy
• pollution
• food
• natural resource

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Resources that are not able to be reproduced as quickly as they are used are called _____.

• renewable resources

• replaceable resources

• non renewable resources

• non replaceable resources

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Geothermal energy uses heat from ____ to produce electricity.

• the earth

• coal

• oil

• natural gas