Human Impact Renewable/Nonrenewable Resources

Which is NOT a fossil fuel?

• petroleum

• water

• natural gas

• coal

True or False: Coal is an example of a renewable resource, one which takes millions of years to form.

• True

• False

Which is an example of a renewable resource?

• Coal

• Natural Gas

• Solar energy

True or false: Gold is an example of a nonrenewable resource.

• True

• False

What is Natural Resource?

• Something found in nature that can be used by people.

• A resource that is alive (grows, reproduces, dies)

• A resource that cannot be reproduced once used or takes a very long time to be made.

• heat energy that comes from the inside of an object

What is Renewable Resource?

• Something found in nature that can be used by people.

• a natural fuel formed from the remains of organisms (coal, petroleum, oil, natural gas)

• A resource that is always available or can be reproduced.

• form of energy that captures the energy of moving air

what is Nonrenewable Resource?

• Something found in nature that can be used by people.

• A resource that cannot be reproduced once used or takes a very long time to be made.

• A resource that is always available or can be reproduced

• electricity produced from machines that run by moving water

What are Fossil Fuels?

• Something found in nature that can be used by people.

• A resource that is always available or can be reproduced.

• electricity produced from machines that run by moving water

• a natural fuel formed from the remains of organisms (coal, petroleum, oil, natural gas)

Hydropower

• a natural fuel formed from the remains of organisms (coal, petroleum, oil, natural gas)

• heat energy that comes from the inside of an object

• electricity produced from machines that run by moving water

• form of energy that captures the energy of moving air

Solar Energy

• energy from the sun

• A resource that cannot be reproduced once used or takes a very long time to be made.

• heat energy that comes from the inside of an object

• A resource that is alive (grows, reproduces, dies)