Parts of the environment that supply materials useful or necessary for the survival of living things.

​Natural Resources

​Nonrenewable Resources

​natural resources that are being used up faster than they can be replaced by natural processes.

Examples:

Nonrenewable Resources

​Fossil Fuels: formed from decayed remains of organisms that died millions of years ago

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural gas

Minerals: are nonliving substances found in Earth's crust.

• Silicon

• Copper

• Uranium

natural resources that can be replenished by natural processes at least as quickly as they are used

​Renewable Resources

Examples:

Renewable Resources

• Air

• Land

• Water

resources that will not run out, not matter how much people use it

​Inexhaustible Resources

​Examples:

• Solar energy

• Wind

• Thermal energy