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Natural Resources

Natural Resources. Agscience I Thomas/Collins. Definition. The raw materials we use for housing, clothing, transportating, heating and cooking. Used to meet our needs and wants Can be split into two categories: Renewable Nonrenewable. Nonrenewable.

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Natural Resources

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  1. Natural Resources Agscience I Thomas/Collins

  2. Definition • The raw materials we use for housing, clothing, transportating, heating and cooking. • Used to meet our needs and wants • Can be split into two categories: • Renewable • Nonrenewable

  3. Nonrenewable • Exist in finite or limited amounts, formed through natural processes that take millions of years. • EX: Fossil fuels or Gold

  4. Renewable • Can be replenished through natural and/or human processes • Ex Trees in the forest, Solar and Wind energy

  5. Demonstration #1

  6. Discussion • What happened to the Worlds popcorn supply? • What needs to be changed for future generations? • Is this real life?

  7. Remember; it is important to realize that renewable resources need to be carefully managed. • People can use a renewable resources in a way that it can not recover. Ex. Grasslands overgrazed; Groundwater pumped faster than precipitation.

  8. Sustainability • the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future • Example: Harvesting only the volume of trees that a forest can grow back.

  9. Demonstration #2 RULE: each member must take a piece each round to be sustained.

  10. Discussion • What are the advantages to using a resources in a sustainable way? • Disadvantages? • What would have happened if 2 or 3 more people joined your group?

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