Human Dependence on Natural Resources

A resource that can be replaced in a human lifetime.

• Natural resources

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Geoscience process

Resources that exist without human intervention.

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Natural resources

• Geoscience process

A resource that cannot be replaced in a human lifetime.

• Renewable

• Limited Resources

• Nonrenewable

• Natural Resources

Something that is needed by organisms and is not infinite in its abundance.

• Natural Resources

• Limited Resources

• Renewable

• Geoscience process

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Any process that happens on Earth.

• Natural Resources

• Limited Resources

• Natural Resources

• Geoscience process

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Clean water to drink and food we eat are considered

• renewable resources

• nonrenewable resources

Wind and solar energy can be replaced as fast as they are used so they are considered ____________.

• limited

• unlimited

Natural resources are ____________ distributed around the world.

• unevenly

• evenly

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Natural resources are found in the earth as the result of ____________________________, like plate tectonics.

• renewable resources

• natural resources

• geoscience processes

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An example of a nonrenewable resource is....

• wind

• coal

• solar