Natural Resources

Any useful material that is found in nature:

• Natural Resource

• Human Resource

• Plants

Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel?

• coal

• minerals

• natural gas

• oil

Which of the following is true about coal?

• It is renewable because it is deep inside Earth.

• It is renewable because it can easily be replaced as it is used.

• It is nonrenewable because it cannot be replaced as fast as people use it.

• It is nonrenewable because it fuels many power plants that make electricity.

 Which of the following are renewable sources of energy?

• coal and natural gas

• oil and electricity

• sunlight and petroleum

• wind and water

What are fossil fuels?

• energy producers that comes from radioactive elements

• a natural product that can be changed into other energy forms to do work

• energy resources that formed from buried plants and animals that lived a very long time ago

• resources that are replaced faster than they are used

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

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

Sunlight

• Nonrenewable resource

• Renewable resource

Rocks and minerals

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

Wind

• Renewable resource

• Nonrenewable resource