1. Unit 11 - Resources
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How does the human use of natural resources impact the environment?

2. Learning objective
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Describe how forests are classified as both a renewable and nonrenewable resource

3. Summary question
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How are forests classified as both a renewable and non-renewable resource?

4. What we know…
Renewable resources can be REPLACED within a short period of time
Non-renewable resources take millions of years to be REPLACED

5. Forests as renewable resources
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Trees are cut down slower than they can regrow
Selective Cutting occurs
Not all trees are cut, usually dead or older trees cut

6. Pair-Share Discuss why forests are considered a renewable resource
Sentence Frame:
Forests are considered renewable resources because ____________________

7. FORESTS AS NON-RENEWABLE Resources
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More trees are cut than can regrow
Clear Cutting occurs
All or most of the trees are cut down
Trees may or may not be replanted

8. Letter __ Is an example of Clear cutting because ________

9. Pair-share discussion
In what situations would humans use and cause them to become a non-renewable resource?
Sentence Frame:
________ is an example of when humans would use forests and cause them to become a non-renewable resource because ________