Forestry 11.1

Non-renewable resource examples

• Solar energy, wind power, and hydroelectric power
• Trees, water, and soil
• Plastic, paper, and glass
• Fossil fuels, minerals, and natural gas

Renewable resource examples

• Coal, natural gas, oil
• Nuclear energy, geothermal energy, biomass
• Solar energy, wind energy, hydroelectric power
• Plastic, metal, glass

How would you describe 'sustainability'?

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Resource Management

• Managing financial diversity for government agencies

• Management of renewable resources

• Managing how resources are harvested so they aren't depleted

• Managing profit shares for logging companies

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Suggest one way you think forests could be managed that allow for logging as well as preservation of that ecosystem?

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T/F - Resource managers make decisions based on scientific research, politics, economics and social issues

• True

• False

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Explain some ways that soil and water are similar as renewable resources

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Why do you think resource managers consider it best to consider the whole ecosystem over a single resource in an area?

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What renewable resource is made by the erosion of rocks and decomposition of organisms?

• plastic
• concrete
• metal
• soil

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What is the uppermost layer of soil in the ground referred to as?

• Bottomsoil
• Underground soil
• Topsoil
• Skysoil