Natural Resources Test

There are large reserves in this resource in Canada, Saudi Arabia and Russia

• Coal

• Natural gas

• Oil

• Copper

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.

• Groundwater

• Organic

• Mineral

• Geologic Processes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

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

• renewable

• nonrenewable

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4.7C - Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

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

• deforestation

• reforestation

• desertification

• resertification

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

This nonrenewable resource is formed over millions of years. Tiny dead animals are pressed down by mud and rocks. The pressure forms tiny bubbles of gas

• Renewable resource

• Carbon dioxide

• Natural gas

• Oil

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Besides supplying 95% of the nation’s transportation fuel, this resource is used to make asphalt, aluminum, shampoo, cosmetics and much more

• Copper

• Petroleum

• Coal

• Natural gas

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

This resource supplies drinking water for 51% of the total U.S. population, and 99% of the rural population

• Rivers and lakes

• Oceans

• Groundwater

• Oil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The United States, Europe, Russia and Australia have large reserves of this resource

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural Gas

• Gold

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1