Natural Resources
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- 1. Energy captured from sunlight
- 5. A resource that cannot be replaced within a short period of time or at all.
- 10. A resource that involves a loose mixture of rock, organic material, water and air. Supports the growth of vegetation.
- 11. Gases in the earth’s atmosphere that trap energy and warm the planet.
- 12. This practice uses dynamite to stun or kill large amounts of fish.
- 13. Feed and are caught near the bottom of the ocean
- 14. Extracting ore or minerals from the ground
- 16. Feed and are caught near surface
- 20. Fulfilling current resource needs without compromising the resource for future generations.
- 21. The maximum amount a commercial fishing operation is allowed to harvest in a given season.
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- 2. An energy resource that can be replaced within a short period of time or will never run out.
- 3. Fish without backbones but with hard protective shells
- 4. A rock that contains a large enough concentration of a mineral to make it profitable to mine.
- 6. Cone-shaped nets that are pulled along the bottom of the ocean.
- 7. Energy produced from moving or flowing water.
- 8. Unwanted fish and marine creatures that are caught during commercial fishing for a different species.
- 9. Provided by the earth, air, water, land, plants, animals, rocks minerals.
- 15. Lost, abandoned or discarded nets that are drifting free in the oceans.
- 17. This process involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals at a rock layer, to release the gas inside.
- 18. Originally formed from ancient plants and animals
- 19. Energy obtained from a process called fission. This involves splitting a uranium atom.