Natural Resources
Key Concepts: A natural resource is something (as a mineral, water power source, forest, kind of plant, kind of animal) that is found in nature and is valuable to human beings.
List all of the natural resources found in your world in the chart below.
Minerals |
Animals |
Forests |
Plants |
Sources of Water Power |
Other |
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Which of the natural resources listed above are renewable? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Which of the resources are non-renewable? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think air is an important resource in your world? Why or why not? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Use one copy of your outline map to add natural resources to your virtual world. Locate the capital city and at least 5 other cities in your virtual world and add these to your map. Include a legend.
Label this map Natural Resources of (name of virtual world)