1. Classifying Earth’s Resources
Renewable, Nonrenewable and Inexhaustible

2. Renewable Resources
Definition- a resource that can be replaced in a short amount of time.

3. Examples of Renewable Resources
Fresh Water via the water cycle
Plants via the life cycle
Animals via the life cycle
Air via the process of photosynthesis
Soil via decomposition of matter and bacteria

4. Fresh Water For swimming For drinking For bathing
For brushing your teeth
For watering plants
For washing your hands
For cooking
For science experiments
For water balloon fights

5. Life Cycle of a Plant Erosion Protectors Food Decoration Medicine
Shade
Building Material
Sun Protection
Oxygen Producers

6. Animals- The Circle of Life
Pollen Carriers
Food
Clothing
Seed Carriers
Entertainment
Medicine
Companionship
Pollen Carriers
Carbon Dioxide Producers

7. Air Cycle- Photosynthesis
To Breath
To do Science
To Regulate Earth’s Temp.
To Sustain Plant Life
To Make Fire
To Make Rocks

8. Soil
Soil is dynamic and is filled with all kinds of life… such as microbes, worms, fungi, insects, roots and more. It contains minerals and small rocks that vary in size from that of silt to pebbles. Soil also usually contains organic matter which is the decaying remnants of plant and animal life. It can take hundreds or thousands of years to make 1 inch of soil

9. Inexhaustible (HUH?) Resources
Definition- resources that cannot be used up.
Oh wait……scientists don’t classify resources an inexhaustible….so keep going with
RENEWABLE!!

10. Examples of MORE Renewable Resources
Wind
Ocean Tides
Sunlight

11. Wind
Wind can be harnessed to store energy as electricity or used directly to pump water

12. Ocean Tides The movement of the tides could be harnessed with
an underwater turbine to store the energy.

13. Sunlight
We can use sunlight to generate electricity by using solar panels
and we already know that the sun is the energy source for the water
and for photosynthesis.

14. Nonrenewable Resources
Definition- a resource that cannot be replaced in a short amount of time.

15. Examples of Nonrenewable Resources
Diamonds and Precious Gems
Metal Ore
Fossil Fuels such as Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas

16. Precious Gems

17. Metal Ore
Iron ore
Platinum ore

18. Fossil Fuels

19. What Can We Conclude About Earth’s Resources?
How do we classify earth’s resources?
What are some examples of each type of resource?
Should we be more careful with two types of resources than the other one?
What can we as individuals do to help conserve some of our most important resources?