Natural Resources Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

What are renewable resources?

• A limited amount and cannot be replaced in a human life time.

• Plastic bags

• Coal, oil, and natural gas

• Can be replaced in our lifetime through natural processes

Wood is...

• A renewable resource

• A nonrenewable resource

• Used to make oil

• Used to make plastic

Sunlight is...

• Very bright

• Will eventually run out soon

• A renewable resource

• A nonrenewable resource

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A group of non-renewable resources, called ______________, include coal, oil, and natural gas.

• Fossils

• Energy

• Resources

• Fossil fuels

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What is a renewable resource? (Choose all that are correct)

• A resource you can reuse over and over

• An object you cannot replace

• Fossil fuels

• A resource that has a nearly unlimited supply

Cutting down trees faster than they grow is ​ (a)   which can be helped by ​ (b)   .

• deforestation

• reforestation

• desertification

• resertification

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Plants, animals, water, and sunlight are all ​ (a)   resources.

• renewable

• nonrenewable

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Olive oil is made with a ​ (a)   resource.

• renewable

• nonrenewable

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Air can be used to make​ ​ (a)   which is a ​ (b)   resource.

• electricity

• renewable

• water

• non renewable

Coal comes from...

• from animals that died millions of years ago.

• from plants that died millions of years ago.

• A factory

• Burning fossil fuels

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