Human Impact Natural Resources

Resources that are obtained from the earth

• global warming

• pollution

• natural resources

• nature's bounty

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

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resources

• fossil fuels

• pollution

A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame.

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resource

• reforestation

• atmosphere

Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals.

• animal relics

• fossil fuels

• reforestation

• fossils

clearing of trees in a forested area

• reforestation

• deforestation

• pollution

• biosphere

planting trees to replace lost forestland

• deforestation

• reforestation

• ecology

• recycling

Introduction of harmful materials into the environment

• reforestation

• fossil fuel

• pollution

• global warming

The slow warming of Earth's atmosphere due to climatic change

• atmospheric heating

• sun's radiation

• earth core

• global warming

The process of making new products from materials that were used in another product.

• recycle

• reduce

• reuse

• repeat

Involves using a resource over and over in the same form

• recycle

• reduce

• reuse

• repeat