VA's Natural Resources Vocabulary Review

Something that comes from nature and is useful to humans.

• groundwater

• watershed

• renewable resource

• natural resource

Arable (farmable) land

• Something that comes from nature and is useful to humans.

• Water that naturally seeps below the surface of the ground.

• A type of natural resource that is capable of being ploughed and is used to grow crops.

• The land that water flows over and under as it makes its way to a body of water.

Water that naturally seeps below the surface of the ground.

• Watershed

• Bay

• Surface Water

• Groundwater

Tags

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Watershed

• A body of water party enclosed by land but with a wide mouth that opens into an ocean or sea.

• Water that naturally seeps below the surface of the ground.

• The land that water flows over and under as it makes its way to a body of water.

• Water that is located on the surface of the ground.

Tags

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A body of water party enclosed by land but with a wide mouth that opens into the ocean or sea.

• Watershed

• Bay

• River

• Lake

A substance that is introduced into the environment by humans that has an undesired effect and harms the usefulness of a natural resource.

• Pollutants

• Cultivated Forest

• Surface Water

• Groundwater

Tags

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A resource that is created by humans. It does not occur naturally and is produced and consumed by humans.

• Natural Resource

• Man-Made Resource

• Arable (farmable) land

• Pollutants

Tags

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Surface Water

• Water that is located on the surface of the ground.

• The land that water flows over and under as it makes its way to a body of water.

• Water that naturally seeps below the surface of the ground.

• A forest made by people.

Tags

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A forest made by people.

• Plants

• Bay

• Man-Made Resource

• Cultivated Forest

Tags

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A type of natural resource that holds soil in place to reduce erosion. They also provide food, habitats, and oxygen.

• Animals

• Pollutants

• Plants

• Surface Water

Tags

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