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Our Earth’s Resources

Our Earth’s Resources. We use things the Earth gives us to help us live better lives. Resource. A resource is something that we can get from the earth over and over again Examples of resources are: Air Water Soil Rocks. How we use them.

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Our Earth’s Resources

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  1. Our Earth’s Resources We use things the Earth gives us to help us live better lives.

  2. Resource • A resource is something that we can get from the earth over and over again • Examples of resources are: • Air • Water • Soil • Rocks

  3. How we use them • We use resources to make things and to grow things we need • Examples of things we use: • Water to drink and grow plants for food, shelter, and clothing • Soil to grow plants for food, shelter, and clothing • Rocks for building and jewelry • Metals to make cans, building parts, and jewelry • Sand to make glass • Oil to make plastics and gasoline

  4. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle • In order to make resources last, we must take care of them • Resources can be: • Renewable – grow over time, like trees • Nonrenewable – we can never get more, like aluminum • Inexhaustible – we will never run out, like air or water, BUT it can be ruined by pollution

  5. So, we must • REDUCE how much we use • REUSE what we can • RECYCLE whatever we can In order to help our Earth be able to keep providing for our needs.

  6. Examples of resources

  7. Water

  8. Soil

  9. Copper and aluminum

  10. Sand and Limestone

  11. Salt and Silver

  12. Clay and coal

  13. REMEMBER TO: • Reduce • Reuse • Recycle • Save our Natural Resources!

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