1. Natural Resources
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2. What is a Natural Resource?
Natural resource: any natural material that is used by humans
Ex: air, soil, minerals, water, petroleum, plants, and animals
On your paper, draw something you use natural resources for
What is a Natural Resource?

3. Renewable vs Nonrenewable
Renewable resource: a natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate that it is consumed
Ex: solar energy, water, and air
Nonrenewable resource: a resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate it is consumed
Ex: minerals like aluminum & iron ore, fossil fuels like oil
Fossil fuel: a nonrenewable resource formed from buried remains of plants and animals that lived long ago
Renewable vs Nonrenewable
Renewable
Sunlight (solar energy)
Wind
Air
Plants
Water
Nonrenewable
Coal
Oil
Natural gas
Minerals

4. Material and Energy Resources
Material resource: a natural resource that humans use to make objects or to consume as food/drink
Energy resource: a natural resource that humans use to generate energy. Most energy used by humans comes from fossil fuels.
What is an example of a material resource and energy resource that you use each day?
Material and Energy Resources

5. Renewable or Nonrenewable
Pick something that you use everyday (like your phone, computer, a jacket, etc.)
Draw and fill in the chart on your paper with the material and energy resources needed to make the thing you chose.
Label whether or not that material would be considered renewable or nonrenewable
Reflection
Name of Item
Material Needed
Renewable or Nonrenewable 1. 2. 3.
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