Natural Resources

Natural Resource

• Is something in the environment that people can use

• Natural resources are synthetic substances created in laboratories.
• Natural resources are exclusively found in urban areas.
• Natural resources are only man-made materials.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

Examples of Natural Resources

• Plastic, rubber, glass, air
• Water, minerals, forests, fossil fuels
• Crops, livestock, buildings, roads
• Electricity, technology, machinery, food

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Produces

• coal ,lumber, Water

• lumber, oil , rain

• Oil, coal and lumber

Definition of Economy

• Is the use of the wealth and resources in a place

• The economy is solely about financial markets.
• The economy refers only to government spending.
• The economy is a measure of a country's population.

Products

• Are items people make or grow to sell

• Are items people make or grow to buy

• Are items people make

Capital Resources

• Capital resources are the human-made things that we use to grow or make other things

• Capital resources are temporary labor forces hired for projects.
• Capital resources refer to raw materials used in production.

Human Resources

• Include machines and their skills, ideas and hard work

• Include people , machines and their skills, ideas and hard work

• Include people and their skills, ideas and hard work

Definition of Renewable

• Renewable resources are only found in urban areas.
• Renewable means they can be replaced

• Renewable resources are finite and cannot be replaced.
• Renewable resources are always man-made and artificial.

Example of Renewable resources

• Coal
• Nuclear energy
• Solar energy, wind energy,

• Natural gas

Which of the following is a natural resource

• electricity

• gasoline

• sunlight

• wifi