Nonrenewable and renewable resources

My soil will allow water to drain through easily. When rubbed between your fingers, it feels rough and scratchy, and its particles feel hard. What soil am I?

• top soil

• loam

• sand

• clay

Ridding bikes and walking places can allow what for the environment?

• more people to buy bicycles

• people to get more exercise

• use less nonrenewable resources like fossil fuels

• use more nonrenewable resources

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Nutrient rich soil can support life like plants, beetles, and earthworms. Why are these organisms important?

• They keep the soil a certain temperature

• They destroy vegetables

• They recycle nutrients within the soil

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are classified as nonrenewable because....

• they take millions of years to form

• we have run out of them

• they can renew in a short period of time

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Soil that retains, keeps or hold, the most water...

• grainy particles, loosely compacted

• very compacted, clay-like, red

• dark brown, loosely compacted, large and small particles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Trees are renewable resources

• they can replaced in a short period of time

• they do not grow back

• it takes millions of years to grow back

Metal cans can be recycled by

• thrown away in the trash

• put in a hazardous waste container

• saving them and used for future experiments or as a pencil holder

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

From our experiment we watched in class, which soil retained the most water

• sand

• silt

• clay

• gravel

True or false

Electricity is made from power plants that burn coal, so when we conserve electricity we are conserving non-renewable resources

• true

• false

Renewable resources are fishes, trees, lakes.

• true

• false

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