Social Studies: Natural Resource Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. The growing of crops and raising of animals
  2. 6. To use something carefully so it will last longer.
  3. 8. A thick, sticky tar made of oil.
  4. 10. Fuels like oil, gas and coal that come from the remains of ancient plants and animals.
  5. 14. A resource that is used only as much as it can be replaced, so that it lasts for the future.
  6. 15. These resources cannot be replaced once used up.
  7. 16. Cutting down trees and taking logs to the mills.
Down
  1. 1. A form of energy that can produce heat, light and movement.
  2. 2. things found in nature that are useful to us. They may include air, water, soil, gas, etc.
  3. 3. Wood that has been cut into boards.
  4. 5. Raising herds of animals.
  5. 7. These resources can be replaced, if used carefully.
  6. 9. A grain that is used to make flour and is apart of Alberta's identity.
  7. 11. A mixture of sand, clay, rock and bitumen.
  8. 12. Power or the ability to do work.
  9. 13. Supplying the land with water, using dams, ditches, and sprinklers.
  10. 14. Coal is found in these. They are long layers below the Earth's surface.