Distribution of Natural Resources

This resource is formed by tiny animals that died in the ocean millions of years ago. Layers of mud pressed down on the dead animals. The mud eventually turned to rock. This rock put a lot of pressure on the dead animals. Rocks around them also heated them up

• Oil
• Coal
• Iron
• Renewable resource

Answer explanation

Oil come from dead marine organisms, plans and animals that fell to the ocean floor and was buried by sediment.

This resource comes from plants that died millions of years ago. Thick layers of rock and soil covered the dead plants. The pressure of the rocks and soil turned the plants into a solid

• Oil
• Copper
• Iron
• Coal

Answer explanation

Coal is made from millions of plants in marshes and swamps that is covered up by sediment and compressed.

Sunlight

• Nonrenewable resource
• Renewable resource

Answer explanation

Sunlight is renewable because it is constantly produced by the sun and will be for millions of years

Rocks and minerals

• Renewable resources
• Nonrenewable resources

Wind

• Renewable resource
• Nonrenewable resource

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Resources that are not able to be reproduced as quickly as they are used are called _____.

• renewable resources

• replaceable resources

• non renewable resources

• non replaceable resources

What are fossil fuels?

• coal, oil, uranium

• oil, natural gas, uranium

• coal, oil, natural gas

• geothemals, coal, natural gas

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Sunlight, wind, and water are considered ____resources.

• renewable
• fossil
• nonrenewable
• nonliving

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_____ resources are resources that cannot be replenished within a lifetime.

• Renewable
• Endangered
• Nonrenewable
• Living

Natural resources are distributed ____across the Earth.

• safely
• easily
• unequally
• underground

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