Natural Resources Crossword Puzzle

4. When a resource has reached the point at which it cannot regenerate itself, overusing resources that can lead to exhausting the supply
7. The number or organisms that can be sustained by the resources in an ecosystem
8. Resources that can be exhausted or cannot be replaced quickly as consumed
12. What type of energy is harnessed off the power of moving water to create electricity.
13. What type of argument is this to support renewable energy? (Social Economic Environment) Renewable energy can create many new jobs for people.
14. What are three examples of nonrenewable energy?
15. Renewable and Nonrenewable energy are all from nature

1. Form of energy that is constantly and rapidly renewed that comes from resources which are continually replenished. Ex: sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves.
2. In harmony with natural systems and acting to maintain the health and integrity of the environment.
3. What type of energy uses solar cells to convert light energy directly into electrical energy
5. What type of energy is kinetic that causes blades of wind turbines to turn.
6. Non-renewable energy is more expensive than renewable energy
8. Anything people use for survival or progress that is taken from the environment
9. What type of energy is created from trees and plants and is used to make ethanol, diesel, and other organic fuels. Includes crops and plant waste and methane gas produced from decomposition
10. That type of argument is this to support renewable energy? (Social Economic Environmental) Very few of renewable energy create pollution, a number of them do not. Which will not harm the environment or atmosphere verses a fossil fuel.
11. The type of energy where heat is stored inside the Earth.