Study Guide for Chapter 4 - Material Resources
The following questions all concern things we’ve read about in the text, discussed in class, watched in movies, worked on with models or activities, or completed on worksheets. Please...
- Study the notes we took in class - Reread chapter selections
- Study worksheets we never collected, which you graded yourself in class.
These are SOME questions you should be able to answer if you have been studying.
(10-15 minutes EVERY NIGHT is all it takes to be an expert)
1) What is a resource? What is a natural resource?
2) What are some other words for man-made?
3) What does material mean? What does immaterial mean?
4) What are some natural resources from the atmosphere?
5) What are some natural resources from the hydrosphere?
6) What are some natural resources from the biosphere?
7) What are somenatural resources from the geosphere?
8) What are some common products, and the natural resources they come from?
9) What are some properties of metals? Describe how these properties are helpful?
10) What is a fossil fuel? What are the three main fossil fuels?
11) What is mining? What are the two types of mining?
12) What are some advantages and disadvantages of each type of mining?
13) What is an ore?
14) What is a renewable resource? Why is it considered renewable?
15) What is a non-renewable resource? Why is it considered non-renewable?
16) What is conservation? Why is it important to conserve?
17) What are the three “R”s for conservation?
18) Both reuse and recycle use a product again. So what is the difference between reuse and
recycle?
19) What are some ways to reduce? Provide examples.
20) Glass, plastic, and metals are all recycled the same way. Describe this process.
21) Paper is recycled in a slightly different way. Describe this process.
22) What is composting? Why is it useful/helpful?
23) What is garbage? What is a landfill?
24) What does biodegradable mean? Non-biodegradable?
25) How is plastic made? Why is it dangerous?
26) What is the Economic Cost of a product made from resources?
27) What is the Environmental Cost for making a product from resources?
Vocabulary Words:
ResourceFossil FuelConductorRecycle
Natural resourcePetroleumMiningMalleableGarbage
ArtificialCoalSurfaceLandfill
SyntheticNatural GasSubsurfaceBiodegradable
AtmosphereConcentratedOreNon-biodegradable
HydrosphereDuctileRenewableEconomic Cost
BiosphereMalleableNon-renewableEnvironmental Cost
GeosphereOpaqueConservationReclamation
Renewable resourceTranslucentReduce
Non-renewable resourceTransparentReuse