Earth's Resources

The resources that Earth provides.

• Natural resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Helpful resources

• desertification

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A natural resource that can be replaced by nature in a short period of time.

• Renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• fossil fuels

• aggregates

The process whereby productive land becomes desert.

• aggregation

• ores

• desertification

• moraine

Sand and gravel and crushed stone that can naturally accumulate on or near Earth's surface.

• bedrock

• ore

• placer deposit

• aggregate

Solid rock. This can consist of limestone, granite, marble, or other rocks that can be mined in quarries.

• aggregate

• bedrock

• ore

• crystal

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A natural resource that can be mined for a profit.

• lithification

• bedrock

• aggregate

• ore

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

This element is the key element in the sugars, starches, proteins, and other compounds that make up living things.

• hydrogen

• nitrogen

• oxygen

• carbon

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

This element is needed by organisms in order to produce proteins. But before it can be used, it must be "fixed".

• nitrogen

• hydrogen

• oxygen

• carbon

These type of bacteria live in water or soil and grow on the roots of some plants and can capture nitrogen gas.

• lightning bacteria

• nitrogen-fixing nodules

• nitrogen-fixing bacteria

• denitrification bacteria

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A substance that enters Earth's geochemical cycles and can harm the well-being of living things or adversely affect their activities.

• pollutant

• fossil burn

• geochemical fuel

• ultraviolet rays

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4