Earth's Resources and Conservation

Natural gas is deep in the Earth. When it is used up it will be gone. What type of resource is it?

• renewable resource

• non renewable resource

• rechargeable resource

Materials found in nature are called?

• man made resources

• underground resources

• natural resources

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Which is NOT a way to conserve resources?

• Turn off the lights your not using

• Plant trees

• Leaving the water faucet on

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A resource is considered renewable if it -

• is made of Earths’ materials like rocks and minerals

• can be replaced in a relatively short amount of time

• is useful to humans in making energy and materials

Students were asked to generate a list that contained nothing but renewable resources. Which student was the the only one to make a correct list?

• Student A

• Student C

• Student D

Using public transportation, like trains and buses, rather than cars helps conserve nonrenewable resources because public transportation -

• needs more water to maintain than the same number of cars

• uses less fossil fuels to move people from place to place

• involves using much more paper for printed materials

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Why is water classified as a renewable rather than a nonrenewable resource? Water is classified as renewable because it -

• is constantly replaced

• is important to all life

• can be frozen into ice

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Fossil fuels form when organic matter is buried and then exposed to heat and pressure for millions of years. Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable resources because they –

• take a long time to form

• are used to produce heat

• form from organic matter

To save and use a resource carefully

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Conservation

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A resource that can be replaced in a human lifetime

• renewable

• nonrenewable

• conservation