F/C - 7th Grade - Natural Resources

part of the environment that supplies material useful or necessary for the survival of living things

• natural resource

• ore

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

a deposit of minerals that is large enough to be mined for a profit.

• ore

• natural resource

• subduction

• porosity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

a resource that can be replenished by natural processes at least as quickly as it is used

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• subduction zone

• soil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a resource that is used faster than it can be replaced by natural processes.

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resource

• soil

• porosity

the are where one plate slides under another plate

• ore

• subduction zone

• natural resource

• mining

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a mixture of weathered rock, rock fragments, decayed organic matter, water, and air.

• soil

• porosity

• mining

• groundwater overdraft

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the measure of a rock's ability to hold water.

• soil

• porosity

• mining

• groundwater overdraft

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

the measure of the ability of water to flow through rock and sediment

• porosity

• permeability

• mining

• groundwater overdraft

the process by which commercially valuable resources are removed from Earth.

• mining

• porosity

• groundwater overdraft

• ore

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

occurs when groundwater is withdrawn from aquifers (naturally filter groundwater/removes substances from water) faster than natural recharge can replace it

• mining

• groundwater overdraft

• soil

• ore

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4