Natural Resources and Sustainability

Your Ecological or Carbon Footprint is the ratio of 

• the amount of resources you use to the amount of resources available
• how many people there are on earth to how much space we have on earth
• people to cars
• robots available to robots needed

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Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint?

• Eating less meat and processed foods
• Walking or biking to school
• Turning off electricity and water when you're not using it. 
• Driving a large car around for fun.

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Which one is not a sustainable practice?

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Anything from nature that living things use is called a ______________.

• energy
• pollution
• food
• natural resource

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What is an example of a renewable resource?

• hydroelectric
• oil
• coal
• fossil fuel

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A resource that can be easily replaced at the same rate that it is being used.

• renewable

• alternative

• nonrenewable

A resource that can not be replaced at the same rate as it is used.

• nonrenewable

• renewable

• alternative

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Resource Depletion

• Using a resource faster than it can be replenished.

• Not wasting any resources

• Taking the last slice of pizza

• Restoring resources as you use them.

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What is the goal of Sustainability?

• Using Earth's resources in a way that does not deplete them.

• Stop using natural resources.

• Make everyone ride their bike to work.

• Ending the selective cutting of trees.

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Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

• Sustainable Development

• Renewable Resource Development

• Community Development

• Flow Development

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