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| What must you and every living thing on Earth have? |
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| resources to grow, develop, maintain life processes & reproduce |
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| the resources that Earth provides |
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| Can matter or energy be created or destroyed? |
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| No, but both can be changed from one form to another. |
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| How are natural resources changed? |
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| natural resources that is possible to use indefinitly without causing reduction in availability |
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| Are resources that exist in an inexhaustible supply, renewable or nonrenewable? |
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| How are renewable resources replaced? |
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| through natural processes |
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| At what rate are renewable resources replaced? |
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| at a rate that is equal to, or greater than, the rate at which they are being used. |
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| Humans who use natural resources responsibly are practicing what? |
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| managment techniques to replace resources as they are used |
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| replacement of renewable resources at the same rate at which they're consumed |
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| What provides an inexhaustible source of energy for all processes on Earth? |
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| Why is the sun considered a renewable resource? |
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| bc it'll be available for at least the next 5 bill years |
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| resource that exists in a fixed amount in various places in Earth's crust |
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| How can nonrenewable resources be replaced? |
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| only by geological, physical and chemical processes that take hundred's of mills of years |
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| Why are nonrenewable resources exhaustible? |
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| because they're being extracted and used at a much faster rate than they're formed. |
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| Are natural resources distributed evenly on Earth? |
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| What does the availablity of natural resources help determine? |
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| the wealth and the power of countries around the world |
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| How many minerals and energy resources does the US consume each year? |
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| 30%, even though it has only 6% of world's population |
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| How much oil does the US consume each day? |
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| Name 4 examples of Renewable Resources |
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| air, trees, solar energy, water |
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| Name 4 examples of Nonrenewable Resources |
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| copper, diamonds, gold, fossil fuels |
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