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Useful materials found in the environment |
Natural resources |
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Natural resources that must be work to be useful |
Raw materials |
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Natural resources that can be replaced |
Renewable resources |
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Natural resources that cannot be replaced |
Non-renewable resources |
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What is the raw material for paper and wood |
Trees |
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What are some examples of renewable energy |
Water, wind, Sun, plants and animals |
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What are some examples of non-renewable resources |
Metal ores, minerals, natural gas, petroleum & crude-oil |
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Many non renewable items such as Metals, minerals and materials such as plastic cannot be renewed but can be: |
Recycled |
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Fuels created over millions of years ago from the remains of prehistoric living things are called |
Fossil fuels |
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What are some examples of fossil fuels? |
Coal, natural gas, and petroleum |
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What type of a natural resource do dams use to produce hydroelectric power? |
Wind |
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Countries with many rivers, such as Canada and Norway can use water energy to create: |
Electricity |
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What type of resource do countries like Saudi Arabia and Mexico have? |
Oil |
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Energy that is made from the rise and fall of the Earth's oceans is called: |
Tidal energy |
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Energy that is made from the Heat of the Earth's interior is called: |
Geothermal energy |
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Energy from plant material is called: |
Biomass |
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What type of energy uses radioactive materials, which are non-renewable but plentiful? |
Atomic energy |
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Natural surroundings |
Environment |
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The large-scale production of goods by hand or by machine |
Manufacturing |
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The movement of settlers and their culture to a new country |
Colonization |
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The growth of machine powered production in an economy |
Industrialization |
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There are three stages of economic activity. What is the first level activities? |
People use the land and resources directly to make product. This can be done by hunting, cutting wood, fishing, herding animals or raising crops. |
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In the three stages of economic activity. What are second level activities? |
People process the products of first level activities. This includes Manufacturing. For example turning corn crops into corn flakes for breakfast. |
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In the three stages of economic activity. What is a third-level activity? |
These are services. For example a person delivers boxes of cornflakes to your local grocery store. |
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Most of the world's land is used for which type of economic level activities? |
First level activities |
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This picture is an example of what type of economic activity? |
Second level activity also called Manufacturing |
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This sweater and the other products are examples of what type of economic activity? |
Third level activity also called retail |
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This picture shows an example of what type of economic activity? |
First level activity also known as farming |
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A loss of forest cover in a region |
Deforestation |
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A richness of different kinds of living things in a region |
Biodiversity |
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Technology for building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams, roads, and bridges. |
Civil engineering |
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Waste, usually man-made, that makes the air, water, or soil less clean |
Pollution |
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What is needed to build houses but cutting down too many trees can result in |
Deforestation |
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Wind energy is a Fossil fuel, raw material, renewable resource, non-renewable resource |
Renewable resource |
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Which of the following environmental problems does paper recycling help solve? |
Deforestation |
