4.8 Virginia's Natural Resources SOL Review

Why is soil an important resource for humans?

• Soil is used to make medicine
• Soil is need for crops to grow
• Soil is needed food for humans
• Soil is used in the construction of homes and furniture.

Match the item to the correct category BOOK

• Man-Made Resource
• Natural Resource

What are two ways Virginia's minerals, ores, and rocks are commonly used?

• building materials and source of fuels

• food and habitats

Virginia's water resources are important to the people who live there because it provides drinking water, water for forming, food, recreation, and transportation.

• True

• False

Match the item to the correct category WATER

• Man-Made Resource
• Natural Resource

The land that water flows over and under as it makes its way to a body of water

• watershed
• natural resource
• river
• bay
• lake

What is the primary function of a watershed?

• To collect and store rainwater

• To prevent soil erosion

• To filter pollutants from water

• To drain water into a larger body of water

Match the item to the correct category PAPER

• Man-Made Resource
• Natural Resource

Match the item to the correct category TIMBER

• Man-Made Resource
• Natural Resource

Match the item to the correct category GLASS

• Man-Made Resource

• Natural Resource