1. Natural Resources

2. Energy Resources What are the main sources of nonrenewable energy?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of nonrenewable energy resources?
How can individuals help manage nonrenewable resources wisely?

3. Sources of Energy
Nonrenewable resources – resources that are used faster than they can be replaced by natural processes.
Renewable resources – resources that can be replaced by natural processes in a relatively short amount of time.

4. Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Fossil Fuels – coal, oil and natural gas
Form over millions of years
Todays formed from the remains of prehistoric organisms millions of years ago.
Buried under sediment and changed chemically by extreme temperature and pressure.

5. Type of Fossil Fuels Formed
Type of organic matter
Temperature and pressure
Length of time that the organic matter was buried

6. Coal

7. Oil and Natural Gas

8. Advantages of Fossil Fuels1. 2. 3. 4.

9. Disadvantages of Fossil Fuels
Limited Supply
Habitat Disruption
Pollution

10. Nuclear Energy Energy released from atomic reactions. Advantages
Disadvantages
Nuclear Energy

11. Managing Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Reclamation
Vampire Energy