1.2 Geography Starter

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Hydropower
• Fossil fuels (e.g., coal, oil, natural gas)

This resource comes from underground and can be burned for energy: _ _ _ _

Match the following

• Renewable

• 
• Nonrenewable

• 
• Renewable

• 
• Continuous

• 

TRUE / FALSE

Geothermal energy is a nonrenewable resource.​ (a)  

• True
• False

What does "renewable resource" mean?

• A resource that can run out

• A resource that naturally replenishes

• A resource made by humans

• A resource stored in batteries

Match the following

• Sustainability

• Looking at big or small areas (like local, national, or global) to understand what's happening

• Scale

• Looking after the Earth so it can support life now and in the future.

• Space

• Where people live and why they choose to live there. Places can change over time.

• Place

• How things (like cities, rivers, or people) are arranged or spread out on the Earth.

Match the following

• Change

• The natural world and the things humans have built or changed.

• Environment

• How things in the world grow, develop, or become different over time.

• Interconnection

• How people, places, and nature are all linked and affect each other.