​Why are Resources Important?

​Can you imagine a world without air? With no land? With no water?

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People couldn’t live without air to breathe, water to drink, and land to walk on.

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Those three things are some of our planet’s most important resources.

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Types of Natural Resources

Renewable and Non Renewable Resources

​What is Renewable

• ​​That means they can be “made new again”.

• ​Example: Water, animals (cows, sheeps, rabbits, pigs) , plants (cotton, apple tree, lemon tree, orange tree), sun energy, wind, etc.

Renewable resources can be replaced within a human lifetime or less.

Coal

• Humans dig it out and burn it to produce energy/electricity

Oil

• Over millions of years tiny dead animals are pressed down by mud and rocks.

• The pressure forms a liquid called oil that we used for gasoline, to make plastics and more.

Rocks and Minerals

Can take millions of years to form.

Examples:

-Sand is used to make glass

-Rubies and Diamonds: Jewelry

-Marble: Building materials

-Used in electronics

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

• When we stop wasting something, we reduce how much of it we use.

• We recycle something when we turn it in to a company and they use it to make new products.

• By using something you do not need anymore to make something useful is how you can reuse.