1. Natural Resources, Conservation, and Soil Test Review 3 rd Grade

2. Test Review O Protecting natural resources and using them carefully is called…….

3. Test Review O Conservation

4. Test Review O Oil, coal, metals, rocks, soil, air, water, plants, and animals are all considered types of………

5. Test Review O Natural resources!

6. Test Review O The process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces over time is called…..

7. Test Review O Weathering

8. Test Review O What do you called changing waste into something useful and new?

9. Test Review O Recycling

10. Test Review O What do you called decayed plants and animals that are found in soil?

11. Test Review O Humus

12. Test Review O What is another word that means to rot or decay?

13. Test Review O Decompose

14. Test Review O Which of the following is an example of a way that resources can be conserved? O Recycling cans O Making a new car O Burning down forests O Growing corn for food

15. Test Review O Recycling cans

16. Test Review O Metals conduct heat well, so this makes metals good for making which of the following? O Soda can O Cooking pots O Door knobs O School buses

17. Test Review O Cooking pots

18. Test Review O Which of the following is a way to conserve natural resources? O Cut down trees for paper O Collect trash O Put trash in the ocean O Reuse items

19. Test Review O Reuse items

20. Test Review O How would soil be different in an area with very little rainfall?

21. Test Review O There would be less water and organic material.

22. Test Review O How to plants contribute to the formation of soil?

23. Test Review O Plants die, decompose, and become part of the soil.

24. Test Review O A student made a mixture of sand, tiny rocks, small twigs, and leaves. What is this student trying to show?

25. Test Review O The formation of soil

26. Test Review O Which type of natural resource can be replaced within a human lifetime?

27. Test Review O Renewable

28. Test Review O Which type of natural resource will never run out?

29. Test Review O Inexhaustible

30. Test Review O List types of non-renewable natural resources. O REMEMBER: Non-renewable resources CANNOT be replaced within a human lifetime.

31. Test Review O Iron O Oil O Diamond O Copper O Old-growth forests O Etc.

32. Test Review O What resource can people help save when they recycle paper?

33. Test Review O Trees, because paper is made from them.

34. Test Review O Plastic is made from which natural resource?

35. Test Review O Oil

36. Test Review O List types of soil.

37. Test Review O Clay O Loam O Topsoil O Sand

38. Test Review O Why is an old-growth forest non-renewable?

39. Test Review O It would take longer than a human lifetime for the trees and plants in an old-growth forest to grow back.

40. Test Review O What are some ways you can conserve water?

41. Test Review O Shorter showers O Turn off water while brushing teeth O Use water conserving appliances O Etc.