How can people use natural resources responsibly?
You are walking through a lush forest. A soft cushion of needles
keeps your foot steps silent. You smell the trees. You hear
chipmunks in the branches. Birds dart back and forth. This is a
beautiful place. But the trees may soon be cut down for lumber and
paper. Can we keep our forests and still have the products we need?
Natural resources are living things from the Earth
that living things need.
Trees are an example of natural resources.
Trees are also an example of a renewable
resource.
Renewable resources are resources that can be
replaced in a fairly short time.
A nonrenewable resource is a resource that
cannot be replaced.
Many natural resources come from below the
ground.
Miners dig into the ground to get rocks called
ores.
Ores
Ores contain metals
and other minerals
that people use.
Copper, iron, and
aluminum are some
useful metals.
Hematite is an ore
that contains the
metal iron.
Hematite is an ore
that contains iron.
Coal forms from plants
that live many years ago.
Some natural resources are not used up.
Plants need sunlight, air, and water to grow.
We need air to breathe and water to drink.
These resources are not used up.
Sunlight, air, and water are always available.
Conservation is
the wise use of
When people
walk instead
of riding in a car,
natural
resources
they save fuel.
so
that
people
do
When they choose products that have less
them
or
packaging,not
theywaste
save paper
and plastic.
There is less garbage.
Savingup.
in these ways is
use them
called conservation.
Water from homes is
filtered through sand in
ponds like these in
Florida. Farmers use the
recycled water for their
orange trees.
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answer
Conservation
Recycling
Natural
Resources
Trees, iron ore, water, and
air are each a _____.
Nonrenewable
resource
Conservation
renewable
resource
Conservation
Recycling
Natural
Resources
A natural resource that can
be replaced in a fairly short
period of time is a ______.
Nonrenewable
resource
Conservation
renewable
resource
Conservation
Recycling
Natural
Resources
A resource that cannot be
replaced once it is used up is
a ______.
Nonrenewable
resource
Conservation
renewable
resource
Conservation
Recycling
Natural
Resources
The saving and wise use of Earth’s
resources is called ______.
Nonrenewable
resource
Conservation
renewable
resource