Natural Resources

Which of the following natural resources are nonrenewable?

• Water
• Animals
• Natural gas
• Wind

Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...

• they are used to produce heat
• they take a long time to form
• they can be found underground

What does conserving resources mean?

• Use as much of the resources as you can
• Only use the resources at school
• Protecting the resource so it does not run out

Any useful material that is found in nature:

• Natural Resource
• Human Resource
• Plants

We dig metal out of the Earth to make steel for buildings, cars, and buses. Metal is a nonrenewable resource.

• True
• False

The Jones family cares about the environment. They run their dishwasher only when it is completely full. Which of the following BEST explains why they do this?

• To save money
• To recycle dish soap
• To reduce sewage
• To conserve water

The three R's stand for:

• Rebuild, Reconstruct, Reuse
• Red, Reduce, Rainbows
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resources

• fossil fuels

• pollution

clearing of trees in a forested area

• reforestation

• deforestation

• pollution

• biosphere

Introduction of harmful materials into the environment

• reforestation

• fossil fuel

• pollution

• global warming