Human Dependence on Natural Resources Quiz

A resource that exist naturally in the environment without human's help

• Renewable Resource

• Biosphere

• Natural Resources

• Nonrenewable Resource

Water that moves through the cracks in the soil and rock layers to form its own layer

• Saltwater

• Groundwater

• Rain

• Rivers

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The atmosphere is the...

• The sum of all living matter on Earth

• The layer of earth that includes the ocean.

• The layer of earth that includes the land and any geological features.

• The layer of gas surrounding a planet that is held in place by gravity

Something that is needed by organisms and is not infinite in its abundance in the environment. If it is exhausted, then the organisms that need it cannot survive.

• Limited Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Natural resource

• Geological Process

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Weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics are all processes that happens to Earth’s surface which are called...

• Natural resources

• Geoscience process

• Life

• Energy Resources

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Solar energy, plants/animals, and wind energy are all...

• resources that CANNOT be replaced by natural means within a short period of time.

• resources that CAN be replaced by natural means in a short period of time.

The difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources are....

• one can be replaced in a lifetime and one can not.

• one can be grown and one can not.

• one humans depend on and one we do not.

A source or supply of energy that can be used to generate electric power to meet people’s needs...

• Energy Resource

• Natural Resource

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

Anything that has volume and mass

• gravity

• space

• matter

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Which are renewable resources?

• Oil, coal, gas

• solar, wind, and hydropower

• aquifers, gold, diamonds