Using Natural Resources Unit Test

Match the following

• Renewable resource

• A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate as it is consumed.

• Fossil fuel

• A nonrenewable energy source formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago; examples include oil, coal, and natural gas.

• Ecosystem

• A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.

• Nonrenewable resource

• A group of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.

• Community

• A substance that is consumed faster than it forms so cannot be replaced in a human life span.

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Match the following

• Eutrophication

• An undesirable change in the natural environment caused by harmful substances.

• Geothermal energy

• The process of recovering valuable or useful materials from waste or scrap.

• Global warming

• an increase in the amount of nutrients in a marine or aquatic ecosystem.

• Pollution

• A gradual increase in the average global temperature caused by carbon dioxide.

• Recycling

• The energy produced by heat with the Earth

Hydroelectic power is a(n) ______________ energy source.

• nonrenewable

• renewable

An aquarium ecosystem is made up of

• cactuses, sagebrush, lizards, snakes, scorpions, and birds.

• water, fish, glass, and water plants.

Earth's temperature is kept warmer by

• the surface of the Earth.

• the greenhouse effect.

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Geothermal energy is produced by

• underground reservoirs of steam or hot water.

• solar radiation.

Atomic reactions can produce an alternative source of energy called

• solar energy.

• nuclear energy.

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The replacement of one type of community by another at a single location over a period of time.

• Community

• Succession