Natural Resources Stemscopes Vocabulary

Conservation is

• The protection of resources and avoidance of wasteful and destructive use.

• resources that cannot be replaced by natural processes within a lifetim

• Materials from Earth that can be replaced by nature within a relatively short period of time

True or False: Renewable Resources include air, plants, water, and animals, which are generally replaceable within a lifetime.

• True

• False

Match the following

• Conservation

• 
• Renewable

• 
• Nonrenewable

• 

Air can be used to make​ ​ (a)   which is a ​ (b)   resource.

• electricity
• renewable
• water
• non renewable

Match the following

• conservation

• 
• Non renewable

• 
• Renewable

• 

Match the following

• resources that cannot be replaced by natural processes within a lifetime

• Renewable

• The protection of resources and avoidance of wasteful and destructive use.

• Non renewable

• Materials from Earth that can be replaced by nature within a relatively short period of time

• Conservation

Fossil fuels include coal, oil, and natural gas. Fossil Fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they....

• take millions of years to be replaced

• require expensive equipment

• can be found all over Earth's surface

• provide much of the energy we use

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• water

• oxygen

• oil

• wood

What characteristic do all renewable resources share?

• produced by dead animals

• replaced in a reasonably short amount of time (less than 100 years)

• replaced in a million years.

Natural Resources come from the _____.