Natural Resources 24-25

Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable resources because of -

• Where they are found

• How they are collected

• How useful they are

• How long they take to form

Oil is formed from...

• the remains of dead ocean organisms.

• the remains of ancient rocks as they break down under pressure

• All of the dead forests

• All of the dead dinosaurs

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Coal is formed from...

• The remains of ancient plants from swamps

• The remains of ancient ocean life

• The remains of dead dinosaurs

• Erupting volcanoes

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Oil comes from deep underground. When people have used all of the oil on Earth, it will be gone. What kind of resource is oil?

• a renewable resource
• an inexhaustible resource
• a nonrenewable resource
• a non-usable resource

Any useful materials that are made by the Earth are called:

• Natural Resources

• Human Resources

• Plants

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Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...

• they are being made faster than they are being used

• they are being used faster than they are being made

• they are only found deep underground

• they are made from the remains of ancient living things

Renewable resources 

• can be replenished.
• cannot be replenished.
• are limited.
• are fossil fuels.

There are large reserves of oil Canada, Saudi Arabia and Russia, because of this we know that these areas were once

• under ancient shallow seas

• part of ancient swamps

• filled with ancient volcanoes

• hot a dry climates

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Because the United States, Europe, Russia and Australia have large reserves of this resource, we know that hundreds of millions of year ago these areas were swamps filled with many plants.

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural Gas

• Gold

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Plants and animals are most often found:

• Evenly distributed across the Earth

• Where climate is warm and wet

• Where climate is hot and dry

• Where climate is cold and wet

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