Protecting Resources Vocab Quiz

The protection and management of Earth's natural resources.

• smog
• conservation
• pollutant
• habitat

A substance that makes land, water, or air dirty and not safe.

• xeriscaping
• decompose
• smog
• pollutant

something like a fence or a group of trees that protects an area from the wind.

• windbreak
• hybrid
• habitat
• decompose

fuel formed from the remains of once-living organisms.

• decompose
• fossil fuel
• endangered
• extinct

a cloud of dirty air caused by pollution, usually found in cities.

• extinct
• decompose
• smog
• conservation

not able to grow or be made again quickly by nature.

• nonrenewable
• endangered
• habitat
• conservation

something that is made by combining two or more things.

• nonrenewable
• hybrid
• xeriscaping
• pollutant

a place where a plant or animal usually grows or lives.

• habitat
• nonrenewable
• decompose
• landfill

rare and in danger of disappearing from Earth.

• extinct
• endangered
• habitat
• conservation

no longer existing.

• pollutant
• endangered
• landfill
• extinct