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Renewable vs. Nonrenewable
Resources Renewable vs. Nonrenewable
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1) Renewable resources can be replenished within a relatively short time (months, or years, or tens of years).
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2) Nonrenewable resources form very slowly, over millions of years, over time periods of millions of years.
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3) Nonrenewable resources form very slowly on or within the Earth.
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4) Nonrenewable resources accumulate slowly according to the human time scale.
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5) Earth has a set quantity of the resources.
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6) Renewable resources include:
fresh water fresh air
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6) Renewable resources include:
plants plant products (food, natural fibers, lumber, fuel)
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6) Renewable resources include:
animals animal products (food, leather)
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6) Renewable resources include:
wind moving water
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6) Renewable resources include:
sun for energy
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7) Nonrenewable resources include:
fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)
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7) Nonrenewable resources include:
soil
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7) Nonrenewable resources include:
metallic minerals (iron, copper, gold, silver, lead, mercury, zinc, uranium)
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7) Nonrenewable resources include:
nonmetallic minerals (kaolin, salt, lime, sulfur, diamonds, sand)
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8) The future supply of most non-renewable resources is uncertain, but “running out” is less of an issue than how much it will cost to extract the resource as the supply diminishes.
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