Alberta's Natural Resources

Natural Resources are

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use.

• Rocks that contain metal

• Resources that are continually being replaced and WILL NOT RUN OUT

• Resources that cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out.

NON - RENEWABLE resources are

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use.

• Rock that contains metal

• Fuels that formed from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago

• Resources that CANNOT BE REPLACED quickly enough to keep from running out.

Renewable resources are:

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use

• Rock that contains metal

• Fuels that formed from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago.

• Resources that can be replaced IF USED CAREFULLY!!!!

A Fossil Fuel is...

• Materials that are found on Earth that people use

• Rock that contains metal

• FUELS THAT FORMED YEARS AGO from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago.

• Resources that CAN BE REPLACED QUICKLY enough to keep from running out.

Which is a Natural Resource

• Sunlight
• Computers
• Cars
• Roofs

Which is NOT a Natural Resource

• Car

• Corn

• Cotton

• Dogs

Which is a renewable Resource

• Coal

• Gasoline

• Oil

• Crops

Which is a non-renewable resource?

• Oil

• Sunlight

• Water

• Crops

Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...

• they are used to produce heat
• they take a long time to form
• they can be found underground

What does conserving resources mean?

• Use as much of the resources as you can
• Only use the resources at school
• Protecting the resource so it does not run out