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Earth’sResources
The WorldAround Us
Plants and Animals
Water Energy
Earth’s Resources for 200
Air, water, soil, trees, andminerals are examples of these.
Earth’s Resources for 200
What are resources?
Earth’s Resources for 400
Natural resources are alwaysfound in, on, or above this.
Earth’s Resources for 400
What is the Earth?
Earth’s Resources for 600
These natural resources can be produced, regrown, or reused fast
enough to keep up with how quickly they are used.
Earth’s Resources for 600
What are renewable resources?
Earth’s Resources for 800
When fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are used up, they are gone
forever, and are called this.
Earth’s Resources for 800
What are non-renewable resources?
Earth’s Resources for 1000
When we save or use less of a resource, we are doing this.
Earth’s Resources for 1000
What is conserving?
The World Around Us for 200
Living and non-living thingsthat interact in an environment
make up one of these.
The World Around Us for 200
What is an ecosystem?
The World Around Us for 400
The path of food in an ecosystemfrom one living thing to another.
The World Around Us for 400
What is a food chain?
The World Around Us for 600
The most productive layer of soil is called this.
The World Around Us for 600
What is topsoil?
The World Around Us for 800
The loss of a single one of these can affect the food chain of an entire
ecosystem.
The World Around Us for 800
What is single species?
The World Around Us for 1000
We need air to breathe, but cars, trucks, and factories, or even fires can
make it dirty, which is called this.
The World Around Us for 1000
What is air pollution?
Plants and Animals for 200
These provide food and habitats for animals,hold soil in place to reduce erosion and improve
water quality, and provide people with food, materials for shelter, fuel to warm us, and
replenish the air we breathe.
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Plants and Animals for 200
What are plants?
Plants and Animals for 400
The term for when a species is gone forever, which can happen naturally or
be caused by humans.
Plants and Animals for 400
What is extinction?
Plants and Animals for 600
Plants are producers, animals are consumers, and these get their food by breaking down wastes or dead things
which help clean our environment.
Plants and Animals for 600
What are decomposers?
Plants and Animals for 800
These are dispersed, or moved, by the wind, water, people, and
animals, helping more plants growin new places.
Plants and Animals for 800
What are seeds?
Plants and Animals for 1000
Leaves from plants help clean our air by taking in and storing carbon dioxide
(a harmful greenhouse gas) andgiving off this.
Plants and Animals for 1000
What is oxygen?
Water for 200
The existence and movement of water on, in, and above the Earth.
Water for 200
What is the water cycle?
Water for 400
Two types of aquatic ecosystems are fresh water and this.
Water for 400
What is salt water?
Water for 600
Seventy percent of this iscovered by water.
Water for 600
What is the Earth’s surface?
Water for 800
The percentage of water on Earth that can be used by people for drinking,
washing, and watering plants.
Water for 800
What is less than 1 percent?
Water for 1000
Turning off the water whilebrushing your teeth, and taking a
shower instead of a bathare examples of this.
Water for 1000
What is water conservation?
Energy for 200
Most of the energy on Earthcomes from this.
Energy for 200
What is the sun?
Energy for 400
The most common form of energywe use at home and at school.
Energy for 400
What is electricity?
Energy for 600
Coal, which is burned to make electricity, is an example of this
kind of fuel.
Energy for 600
What is a fossil fuel?
Energy for 800
Using compact florescent bulbs, turning off lights when we leave
a room, and unplugging cell phone and game chargers are examples of this.
Energy for 800
What is energy conservation?
Energy for 1000
It generally uses less energy to make a product from these kinds of materials than it does to make a product from
new materials.
Energy for 1000
What is recycled?
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