nonrenewable 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

Diamonds and other minerals

• Nonrenewable
• Renewable

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

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• cotton

• trees

• cattle

• uranium

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

The advantages of solar energy include the fact that it is

• nonrenewable

• non-polluting

• expensive

• absent at night