Natural Resources/Food Webs Vocabulary

Any useful material that is found in nature:

• Natural Resource

• Human Resource

• Plants

• Animals

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A resource that is not easily replaced...

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Conservation

• Recycle

Can be replaced within a human lifetime

• Non-renewable resource

• Renewable resource

• Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas (CONG)

• Soil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

To protect and use our resources wisely

• Non-renewable

• Conservation

• Petroleum (Oil)

• Deplete (run out)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

To conserve resources by using them again

• Resources

• Conservation

• Re-use

• Deplete

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

To conserve resources by using less of it

• Recycle

• Re-use

• Reduce

• Non-renewable

To conserve resources by making new products out of used resources

• Recycle

• Reduce

• Non-renewable

• Deplete

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

A place to dispose waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil

• Renewable

• Landfill

• Deplete

• Conservation

Energy generated in ways that do not deplete natural resources or harm the environment, especially by avoiding the use of fossil fuels

• Fossil fuel energy

• Alternative energy

• Nuclear energy

• Petroleum energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What are Fossil fuels?

• Natural resources that can be replenished within a lifetime

• Resources such as wind, water, and animals.

• Using the resource wisely so it does not run out

• Non-renewable resources that took millions of years to form