1. Starter: Check the tag on the back of your shirt. What is your shirt made of?

2.  Predict which of these are natural resources  A chair  A tree  Flowers  The Sun  A car

3.  Environment: the water, soil, air, and living things around you  Natural Resources: things found in NATURE that are useful to people MAIN IDEA: PEOPLE USE NATURAL RESOURCES EVERY DAY!

5. 1. RENEWABLE: resources that can be replaced, or again. (Think of the prefix “re”…”re” means _____________________ 2. NONRENEWABLE: resources that CANNOT be replaced or used again. (Think of the prefix “non”….”non” means ________________ 3. FLOW: resources that ARE renewable, but cannot be used all the time. ….Just go with the flow!

6. Trees are renewable.The seeds from vegetables are renewable.

7. Oil that we drill from wells in the earth are nonrenewable. Once it is used, it is gone forever!

8. Wind is a flow resource. People do not CONTROL when the wind comes. When it is there, we use it. When it isn’t, we cannot use it. This is a FLOW resource.

9.  MAIN IDEA: People often live where there are natural resources they can use! Example: Miami, Florida has warm beaches and a sunny climate. These are two very important natural resources!

10.  California built the Oroville Dam

11.  Why should people conserve the resources in their community?  What are some ways we can CONSERVE, or save resources?