Natural Resources

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.

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.